interchanging, taking turns, rotation, substitution
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Alternation Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
(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.
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.
(n.)
Permutation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutPermutation.
alternation
alternateness \al*ter"nate*ness\, n. the quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
similar words(1)
alternation of generation
Noun
1. being regularly exchangeable
(hypernym) exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness, fungibility
(derivation) alternate
2. successive change from one thing or state to another and back again
(hypernym) succession, sequence
(derivation) alternate, jump
Alternation Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Alternation may refer to:
- Alternation (card game)
- Alternation (linguistics), a variation in the phonological form of a morpheme
- Diathesis alternation
- Alternation (complexity), a resource in computational complexity theory
- R/N alternation, see Rhotacism
- AlterNation, a show on NE1 FM
- Alternation (geometry), a geometric operation for deriving polytopes from other polytopes.
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