alternate
IPA: ˈɔɫtɝnʌt
noun
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
verb
- (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
- (intransitive) To vary by turns.
- (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
adjective
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
- (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
- (mathematics) 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.
- (US) Other; alternative.
- (botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
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Examples of "alternate" in Sentences
- I wonder what they call their alternate "free market" universe for banksters?
- The defense is going to be looking for what I call alternate lifestyle jurors, people who are a little looser.
- The undergraduate-level alternate is Kwame A. Firempong of Inglewood, Calif., a 2010 high school graduate of Windward School in Los Angeles.
- Businesses can also use this opportunity to invest in alternate, perhaps more efficient, energy sources - which will help our economy in the long-run.
- Now, while we take the term alternate reality game in this context with a grain of salt, Xenophile does have a decent track record with their past projects for
- An equally good alternate is to take I-37 south to around Pleasanton and and catch 281 straight through McAllen to Hidalgo, where 281 turns east, following right along the river to Los Indios.
- By the early 1980âs, many writers who had grown up on Bulwarkâs Silver Age books relied on those reprints to show readers the previous incarnations of characters as they used them in alternate universe cross-over stories.
- He didn't refer to them as secret prisons and that the CIA would continue to have available to it what he called alternate techniques for interrogation, which he insisted had been legally reviewed, were lawful, were tough, he said, but safe and did not constitute torture.
- With help from the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, current and former Wal-Mart workers and managers are planning what they call an alternate analysts' meeting near the company's Bentonville, Ark., headquarters on Tuesday, a day before the retailer holds its annual Wall Street briefing.
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