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Alternant Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutComposed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
alternant
\al*ter"nant\ (&?;), a. [l. alternans, p. pr.: cf. f. alternant. see alternate, v. t.] (geol.) composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
Alternant Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In linguistics, an alternation is the phenomenon of a phoneme or morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological realization. Each of the various realizations is called an alternant. The variation may be conditioned by the phonological, morphological, and/or syntactic environment in which the morpheme finds itself.
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