The phrase "alter element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing changes or modifications to a specific component or part of a system, design, or process.
Example: "To improve the functionality of the software, we need to alter the element responsible for data processing."
Alternatives: "modify component" or "change part".
Administration officials — who have briefed GOP lawmakers, trade associations and other groups about their plans — have emphasized they are willing to alter elements of the legislative package to win enough votes to pass it in the Senate.
Obama has the power to alter elements of it, but State Department officials, in their regularly held migration talks Monday with Cuban diplomats, reiterated that the policy is not up for debate.
After Mr. Gross was detained on Dec. 3, 2009 — charged with subversive acts, and later sentenced to 15 years in prison — administration officials sought to reduce financing and alter elements of the programs.
When engineers take steps to alter elements of a basin's water budget, careful consideration must be given to the consequences of the hydrology and ecology of the entire watershed.
Two months before its self-imposed deadline to give Iraqis limited power to run their country, the Bush administration is showing an increased willingness to reverse or alter elements of its occupation tactics, and a new hesitation to engage in military confrontations that could inflame the Iraqis, government officials say.
► S. caprea isolates possessed different strategies to respond to Cd and Zn. S. caprea altered element distribution and translocation, apoplastic barrier development and root anatomy upon Cd and/or Zn exposure.
These semiconductor layers are assembled, one upon the next, by altering elements fed to a crystal growing in a vacuum.
And by subtly altering elements of that embodied figure, the scientists have established a principle that is fundamental to therapy — that an experience in a virtual world can alter behavior in the real one.
And I think when you begin to mix subtlety with altering elements of reality, it can hook that feeling of surreal familiarity that I think a lot of people crave in art".
The European PAL version resolved these glitches and contained altered elements of the gameplay to prevent sequence breaking, a slower loader that prevented the occasional crashes, slightly different story details, and narration in the opening and closing scenes.
