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• acceleration go
  an increase in rate of change
  
• deceleration, retardation, slowing go
  a decrease in rate of change
  
• avulsion go
  an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another
  
• break go
  an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
  
• mutation go
  a change or alteration in form or qualities
  
• sublimation go
  (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable
  
• surprise go
  a sudden unexpected event
  
• birth, nativity, nascency, nascence go
  the event of being born
  
• breakup, separation, detachment go
  coming apart
  
• vagary go
  an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)
  
• variation, fluctuation go
  an instance of change
  
• conversion go
  a change of religion
  
• death, decease, expiry go
  the event of dying or departure from life
  
• decrease, lessening, drop-off go
  a change downward
  
• destabilization go
  an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft)
  
• increase go
  a change resulting in an increase
  
• moderation, easing, relief go
  a change for the better
  
• deformation go
  alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it
  
• transition go
  a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
  
• shift, transformation, transmutation go
  a qualitative change
  
• scintillation, twinkle, sparkling go
  a rapid change in brightness
  
• play, shimmer go
  a weak and tremulous light
  
• transmutation go
  (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment)
  
• impairment, damage, harm go
  the occurrence of a change for the worse
  
• development go
  a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
  
• revolution go
  a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
  
• mutation, genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation go
  (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure
  
• sex change go
  a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics (as by surgery and hormone treatments)
  
• loss of consciousness go
  the occurrence of a loss of the ability to perceive and respond