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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɒl.tə(ɹ)ˈeɪ.ʃən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɔl.tɚˈeɪ.ʃən/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɑl.tɚˈeɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

alteration (countable and uncountable, plural alterations)

1. The act of altering or making different.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity:

     …alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…

   1. A minor adjustment to clothing, such as hemming or shortening, to make it fit better.
2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; a changed condition.

   The doctors don't see any alteration in the patient's condition.

   • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Resident Patient”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes:

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

派生語

Further reading

• “alteration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “alteration”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.