alteration

noun
/ɒl.tə(ɹ)ˈeɪ.ʃən/UK/ɔl.tɚˈeɪ.ʃən/US/ɑl.tɚˈeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From Old French alteracion (French altération), from Medieval Latin alterātiō. Morphologically alter + -ation.

  1. derived from alterātiō
  2. derived from alteracion

Definitions

  1. The act of altering or making different.

    • …alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
  2. The state of being altered

    The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; a changed condition.

    • …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at alteration. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at alteration. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at alteration

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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