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to keep changing from one particular position or state to another
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every other one
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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