different between alteration vs substitution

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l.t?(?)?e?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l.t??e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

alteration (countable and uncountable, plural alterations)

1. The act of altering or making different.
2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
   • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Resident Scholar in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,

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

Translations

References

• “alteration” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Interlingua

Noun

alteration (plural alterationes)

1. change, alteration

English

Etymology

From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?bst??tu??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?bst??tju???n/

Noun

substitution (countable and uncountable, plural substitutions)

1. The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
2. A substitute or replacement.
3. (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
4. (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.

   Hypernym: loan

   Hyponyms: loan coinage, loan meaning

   Coordinate term: importation

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• bustitutions

French

Etymology

From Latin substit?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syp.sti.ty.sj??/

Noun

substitution f (plural substitutions)

1. substitution

Related terms

• substituer

Further reading

• “substitution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).