Change

1. Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
2. A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.
3. A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.
4. Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.
5. That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.
6. Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due.
7. A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.
8. A public house; an alehouse.
9. (Mus.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
Change of life ,
the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age.
Change ringing ,
the continual production, without repetition, of changes on bells, See def. 9. above.
Change wheel (Mech.),
one of a set of wheels of different sizes and number of teeth, that may be changed or substituted one for another in machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc.
To ring the changes on ,
to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways.