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Alter may refer to: * Alter (name), people named Alter * Alter (automobile) * Alter (crater), a lunar crater * Alter Channel, a Greek TV channel * Archbishop Alter High School, a Roman Catholic high school in Kettering, Ohio * ALTER, a command in older implementations of COBOL * Alter ego, or "alter" in popular usage, a "second self" * Alter (SQL) * ''Alter'' (album), 2002 album by Floater * ''Alter'', a 2006 remix album by Swiss band Knut * "Alter", a song from the 1994 album '' Glow'', by Raven See also * Altar (other) An altar is a religious structure for sacrifices or offerings. Altar may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Altar'' (album), a 2006 album by Sunn O))) and Boris * Altar (Brazilian band), a dance music band * Altar (Dutch band), a death m ...

Alter (name)
Alter is both a surname and a given name. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): distinguishing epithet for the older of two bearers of the same personal name. For the Ashkenazim: from the Yiddish personal name Alter, an inflected form of (‘old’). This was in part an omen name, expressing the parents’ hope that the child would live a long life; in part an apotropaic name, given to a child born after the death of a sibling, but also said to have sometimes been assumed by someone who was seriously ill. The purpose is supposed to have been to confuse the Angel of Death into thinking that the person was old and thus not worth claiming as a victim. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Avraham Mordechai Alter (1866–1948), Hasidic rabbi *David Alter (1807–1881), American inventor *Dinsmore Alter (1888–1968), American astronomer and meteorologist *Gary Alter, American plastic surgeon *Harvey Alter, American virologist *Hobart Alter (1933–2014), American businessman *Isra ...
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