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AlternateAlternate Al*ter"nate (?; 277), a. [L. alternatus, p. p. of
alternate, fr. alternus. See Altern, Alter.]
1. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in
succession of time or place; by turns first one and then
the other; hence, reciprocal.
And bid alternate passions fall and rise. --Pope.
2. Designating the members in a series, which regularly
intervene between the members of another series, as the
odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every
second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.; read
every alternate line.
3. (Bot.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights
of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular
divergence. --Gray.
Alternate alligation. See Alligation.
Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by
two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the
parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH,
GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate
angles.
Alternate generation. (Biol.) See under Generation. Alternate
Alternate Al*ter"nate (?; 277), n.
1. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
[R.]
Grateful alternates of substantial. --Prior.
2. A substitute; one designated to take the place of another,
if necessary, in performing some duty.
3. (Math.) A proportion derived from another proportion by
interchanging the means.
AlternateAlternate Al"ter*nate (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Alternated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alternating.] [L. alternatus,
p. p. of alternare. See Altern.]
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by
turns; to interchange regularly.
The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this
life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition
of good and evil. --Grew. Alternate
Alternate Al"ter*nate, v. i.
1. To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow
reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as,
the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. --J.
Philips.
Different species alternating with each other.
--Kirwan.
2. To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky
hills and sandy plains.
Meaning of Alternates from wikipedia
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Alternating may
refer to:
Alternating algebra, an
algebra in
which odd-grade
elements square to...
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Alternating current (AC) is an
electric current that
periodically reverses direction and
changes its
magnitude continuously with time, in
contrast to...
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Alternate picking is a
guitar playing technique that
employs alternating downward and
upward strokes in a
continuous fashion. If the
technique is performed...
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alternate universe,
alternate universes,
parallel universe,
parallel universes, or
parallel world in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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Alternate,
novel by John
Martel (novelist) The
Alternate (film) "The
Alternate" (Star Trek: Deep...
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Alternate history (also
referred to as
alternative history, allohistory, althist, or
simply AH) is a
subgenre of
speculative fiction in
which one or more...
- In mathematics, an
alternating series is an
infinite series of the form ∑n=0∞(−1)nan{\displaystyle \sum _{n=0}^{\infty }(-1)^{n}a_{n}} or ∑n=0∞(−1)n+1an{\displaystyle...
- An
official alternate route is a
special route in the
United States that
provides an
alternate alignment for a highway. They are loop
roads and
found in...
- "The
Alternate Side" is the 28th
episode of the
sitcom Seinfeld. The
episode was the 11th
episode of the show's
third season, and
aired on
December 4...
- see IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters. In linguistics, an
alternation is the
phenomenon of a
morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological...
