Altern(a.) Acting by turns; alternate.
Alternant(v. t.) Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
Alternate(a.) 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.
Alternate(a.) 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.
Alternate(a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
Alternate(n.) That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
Alternate(n.) A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
Alternate(n.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
Alternate(v. i.) 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.
Alternate(v. i.) To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
Alternate(v. t.) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
Alternated(imp. & p. p.) of Alternate
Alternately(adv.) In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
Alternately(adv.) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
Alternateness(n.) The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
Alternating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alternate
Alternation(n.) The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
Alternation(n.) Permutation.
Alternation(n.) The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
Alternative(a.) Offering a choice of two things.
Alternative(a.) Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
Alternative(a.) Alternate; reciprocal.
Alternative(n.) An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
Alternative(n.) Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.
Alternative(n.) The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
Alternative(n.) A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
Alternatively(adv.) In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
Alternativeness(n.) The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
Alternity(n.) Succession by turns; alternation.
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