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alteración

alteration; disturbance

noun ahl-teh-rah-SYOHN Rare
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Also means

change; disruption

Usage Note

Alteración covers both minor changes (una alteración en el plan) and more dramatic disruptions or upsets — alteración del orden público means a breach of public order. In medicine it refers to an abnormality (alteración cardíaca). The plural alteraciones is very common in technical and official language. Always feminine.

Examples

"Detectaron una alteración en el ritmo cardíaco."

Natural Translation

They detected an alteration in the heart rhythm.

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