CHANGE, the substitution of one thing for another, hence any alteration or variation, so applied to the moon's passing from one phase to another. The use of the word for a place of com mercial business has usually been taken to be a shortened form of Exchange (q.v.) and so is often written 'Change. "Change" is particularly used of coins of lower denomination given in sub stitution for those of larger denomination or for a note, cheque, etc., and also for the balance of a sum paid larger than that which is due. A further application is that in bell-ringing, of the variations in order in which a peal of bells may be rung (see BELL) .