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noun

altering

the act of changing something, or a change made to it

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Six example sentences with altering, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every altering of a prescription is logged by the pharmacist, with the old dose and the new one side by side.

    Medicine

  • Decades of dam building caused an altering of the river's course that left the old fishing villages a mile from water.

    Environment

  • The altering of a single clause in the lease took two months of drafts and three signatures from each side.

    Law

  • The altering of the family recipe caused an argument, since half the table missed the extra cinnamon.

    Cooking

  • The altering of the starting lineup at halftime caught the visitors off guard for the whole third quarter.

    Basketball

  • Every altering of the source file is stamped with the author's name and the exact time it was saved.

    Technology

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