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:
“If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be “To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one’s own writings in translation.””
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge to alter the world. This is odd, because ‘experimental method’ used to be just another name for scientific method.... I hope [to] initiate a Back-to-Bacon movement, in which we attend more seriously to experimental science. Experimentation has a life of its own.”
—Ian Hacking (b. 1936)
“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)