alter (verbe)
Sens 1 : (cause something/somebody to) to
become different; change in character, position, size, shape, etc. [source : D'après
OAL]
Contextes :
- Only width and thickness are considered here because length is often
altered by breakage and snapping.
- This operation alters the sound quality and is just audible in direct
comparisons of the filtered and unfiltered stimuli.
- By means of a dynamic greenhouse climate model, it was shown that
condensation highly alters the thermal insulation properties (from +25% to
-17%) of greenhouse cladding materials, depending on the far-infrared
radiation transmittance of the dry material.
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Sens 2 : to become different in some particular way,
without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or
essence. [source : D'après WN]
Contextes :
- By locating poverty in the relationship between associated ideologies
and materiality my work shows that while the strike did alter the
association between labor and capital, it did not lessen poverty's pervasive
hold on the region; poverty's production continued.
- The presence of a school or an employer also may be sufficient to
alter attitudes toward marriage, especially because formal education or
nonfamily employment can be viewed as alternatives to marriage or other
family members as sources of support, particularly for women (Oppenheimer
1988).
- Figure 35 shows the program interface which allows the forecaster to
manually alter the different settings as seen fit prior to developing the
forecast.