alteration vs acceleration

acceleration vs alteration

alteration and acceleration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
alteration	Yes	No	No	No
acceleration	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, acceleration is a hyponym of alteration; that is, acceleration is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than alteration:

alteration: an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
acceleration: an increase in rate of change

Other hyponyms of alteration include deceleration, retardation, slowing, avulsion, break, mutation, sublimation, surprise, birth, nascence, nascency, nativity, breakup, detachment, separation, vagary, fluctuation, variation, conversion, death, decease, expiry, decrease, drop-off, lessening, destabilization, increase, easing, moderation, relief, deformation, transition, shift, transformation, transmutation, scintillation, sparkling, twinkle, play, shimmer, transmutation, damage, harm, impairment, development, revolution, chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation, mutation, sex change, loss of consciousness.

alteration (noun)	acceleration (noun)
the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)	the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)	an increase in rate of change
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another	(physics) a rate of increase of velocity

Difference between alteration and acceleration

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