The phrase "alter the form of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes or modifications to the structure or appearance of something.
Example: "The artist decided to alter the form of the sculpture to give it a more dynamic look."
Alternatives: "change the shape of" or "modify the structure of".
Folding is a way to repurpose pre-existing materials to alter the form of things.
These species have the ability to alter the form of newly generated zooids in response to pressures of increased predation or competition.
Luther v. Borden, 7 How. 1. Whether the adoption of provisions for the initiative and referendum in the constitution of a State, such as those adopted in Oregon in 1902, so alter the form of government of the State as to make it no longer republican within the meaning of § 4 of Art.
Elongation or compression of the crystal in the appropriate direction should alter the form of the potential function for the normal mode in question.
Therefore, in consonance with shah and carpenter (1995), some test takers were involved in multiple subsets of comparing and categorizing to alter the form of information presented in the instruction or in the graph to different classifications and juxtapose them to make inferencing or reasoning.
Since these structural and compositional differences aligned closely with the different periods of land rehabilitation practices, an intriguing aspect pertains to how conditions within the older rehabilitated environments could have enabled the native black sheoak to colonise and then so fundamentally alter the form of the rehabilitated ecosystems.
Indeed, by constructing dikes and reclaiming land from the sea, the people of the Netherlands have altered the form of the rivers and their surrounding landscapes.
Tele-Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable television company, said yesterday that it was again altering the form of its planned spinoff of assets.
A landscape without cars would probably also have altered the form of cities, with services provided closer to where people live, and levels of air pollution substantially lower.
Assisted by Greek and Kievan monks and supported by the Greek hierarchy, he next carried out several reforms of his own: he altered the form of bowing in the church, replaced a two-fingered manner of crossing oneself with a three-fingered one, and ordered that three alleluias be sung where Moscow tradition called for two.
Unlike Greece — whose exit from the euro would require either a redenomination or outright repudiation of its euro-denominated debts (with potentially catastrophic financial consequences) — Germany would be able to reintroduce the mark without altering the form of any current asset, liability or contract.
