Alter

To alter generally means to change something, and may refer to:

  • Alter (name), people named Alter
  • Alter (automobile)
  • Alter (crater), lunar crater
  • Alter Channel, Greek TV channel
  • Archbishop Alter High School, Roman Catholic high school in Kettering, Ohio
  • "Alter", a song by Raven from their 1994 album Glow
  • ALTER, command in older implementations of COBOL
  • Alter ego, or "alter" in popular usage, a "second self"
  • Alter (SQL)
  • Alter (aircraft constructor)
  • Alter (album), 2002 album by Floater
  • Alter (journal), a french philosophical journal, Alter, revue de phénoménologie
  • Alter, 2006 remix album by Swiss band Knut

Famous quotes containing the word alter:

    “I think we ought to be able to alter the whole system—but not by bullying, not because one lot wants what the other has got.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”
    —Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

    “He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)