alteration vs evolution

alteration

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

  • The act of altering or making different. 

evolution

noun
  • A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms. 

  • The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations. 

  • The extraction of a root from a given power. 

  • Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc. 

  • A manoeuvre of troops or ships. 

  • A turning movement, especially of the body. 

  • The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it. 

  • The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission. 

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