alternate A₁L₁T₁E₁R₁N₁A₁T₁E₁

Adjective 4 meanings

1. Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).

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.

   “the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.”

3. Other; alternative.

   “Hyperlinked text is displayed in alternate color in a Web browser.”

4. Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence

   “Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).”

Noun 4 meanings

1. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.

2. A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.

   “An alternate for the first-string quarterback played the entire first half.”

3. A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

4. A replacement of equal or greater value or function.

Verb 4 meanings

1. To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.

2. To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.

   “The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.”

3. To vary by turns.

   “The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.”

4. 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.

Similar and opposite words

• STATE₅
• LATE₄
• DATE₅
• PRIVATE₁₂
• RATE₄
• HATE₇
• CREATE₈
• SEPARATE₁₀
• ESTATE₆
• SENATE₆
• APPRECIATE₁₆
• CLIMATE₁₁

• ALTERCATE₁₁
• ALTERNATS₉