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  • English Word Altazimuth Definition An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.
  • English Word Alter Definition To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
  • English Word Alter Definition To agitate; to affect mentally.
  • English Word Alter Definition To geld.
  • English Word Alter Definition To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.
  • English Word Alterability Definition The quality of being alterable; alterableness.
  • English Word Alterable Definition Capable of being altered.
  • English Word Alterableness Definition The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
  • English Word Alterably Definition In an alterable manner.
  • English Word Alterant Definition Altering; gradually changing.
  • English Word Alterant Definition An alterative.
  • English Word Alteration Definition The act of altering or making different.
  • English Word Alteration Definition The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
  • English Word Alterative Definition Causing ateration.
  • English Word Alterative Definition Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.
  • English Word Alterative Definition A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
  • English Word Altercate Definition To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.
  • English Word Altercated Definition of Altercate
  • English Word Altercating Definition of Altercate
  • English Word Altercation Definition Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
  • English Word Altercative Definition Characterized by wrangling; scolding.
  • English Word Altered Definition of Alter
  • English Word Altering Definition of Alter
  • English Word Alterity Definition The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.
  • English Word Altern Definition Acting by turns; alternate.
  • English Word Alternacy Definition Alternateness; alternation.
  • English Word Alternant Definition Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
  • English Word Alternate Definition Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
  • English Word Alternate Definition Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.
  • English Word Alternate Definition Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.