Alteration vs. Modification — What's the Difference?

The act or procedure of altering.

The act or process of modifying or the condition of being modified.

The condition resulting from altering; modification.

A change or a result produced by modifying

The act of altering or making different.

A change undergone by a word that is borrowed from another language.

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

A phonological change undergone by a word or morpheme when it is used in a construction, as the change of will to 'll in they'll.

The act of altering or making different.

The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.

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

(linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in I'm)

An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another;

The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.

The act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)

The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.

The act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification);

(biology) A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.

(linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language

The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine.

Something which has been modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; as, the various modifications of light; the latest modification of the operating system crashes less frequently.

The alteration of the meaning of a word or phrase by another word or phrase; - usually a restriction of the scope of the word modified; as, in the phrase "a billion dollars is a relatively small sum to spend on cancer research" the modification of small by relatively is needed to make the sentence accurate, rather than ludicrous.

The act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)

Slightly modified copy; not an exact copy;

The grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another;