alteration vs translation

translation vs alteration

alteration and translation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, translation is a hypernym of alteration; that is, translation is a word with a broader meaning than alteration:

alteration: the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
translation: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

Other hypernyms of alteration include transformation.

alteration (noun)	translation (noun)
the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)	the act of uniform movement
the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)	the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another	a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
	rewording something in less technical terminology
	a uniform movement without rotation
	(genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
	(mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same

Difference between alteration and translation

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