alternate

B2
Noun
5 definition(s)
1 Definition

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.

2 Definition

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

3 Definition

A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

4 Definition

A replacement of equal or greater value or function.

5 Definition

Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.

Verb
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

2 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
3 Definition

To vary by turns.

Example Sentences
  • The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
4 Definition

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
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • alternate picking is a guitar playing technique
2 Definition

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.

Example Sentences
  • the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
3 Definition

Other; alternative.

Example Sentences
  • He lives in an alternate universe and an alternate reality.
4 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).