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:
“Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I’m feminine. So I relate to feminine men.”
—Madonna [Madonna Louise Ciccione] (b. 1959)
“No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreative faculties are matured early, while passion is strong, and judgment and self-restraint weak. We cannot alter this, but we can alter what is conventional. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as a crime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance.”
—Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)
“In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)