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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alter a single" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the modification or change of one specific item or element.
Example: "To improve the performance of the system, we need to alter a single parameter in the configuration file."
Alternatives: "change one" or "modify a single".
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Alter a single variable, said Tsurumaki, "and you see the impact on all the other systems.
"I said in my head, 'It's him or me.' " The Royal Court agreed with Mr. Bond's refusal to alter a single line that the Lord Chamberlain considered too violent, sexually suggestive or indecorous.
"That said, I didn't add or alter a single word or sentiment that did not preexist in the original text, for to do so would be to go against my nearly three decades' practice of conceptual writing, one that states that a writer need not write any new texts but rather reframe those that already exist in the world to greater effect than any subjective interpretation could lend.
In fact, 11 of the 20 drugs target proteins that are coded for the same exact gene in HIV, called pol, making it easy for the virus to alter a single gene in its genetic code and to evade most of our best medicines.
This event may alter a single gene or multiple independent events may target a coordinated program of genes.
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs): genetic variations that alter a single nucleotide in the genome.
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The final refinement altered a single word: "will" became the more ambiguous "would".
Morris says that he has not altered a single bar of the score, and he defends Prokofiev's repetitions, saying that each time a theme returns it does so in a different guise.
Baker estimates that 93 percent of "A Box of Matches" is autobiographical, but that if he alters a single detail from "reality," this necessitates calling the work a novel, which strikes me as absurd.
Researchers working with the now famous worm C. elegans (two of the last five Nobel Prizes in medicine went to scientists doing work on the little nematode) were able to produce worms that live more than twice as long and age more slowly by altering a single gene.
In addition, the equilibrium is defined in terms of link stability: no players benefit from altering a single link in their link decisions.
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