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Definition of Alternate

Alternate 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. 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. Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty. A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means. To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly. To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains. Related Definitions: Act, Alternate, And, Angular, Another, As, At, Being, Between, By, Cause, Derived, Designated, Designating, Different, Distributed, Divergence, Duty, Each, Ebb, Else, Equal, Even, Every, First, Flood, Follow, Followed, Following, From, Happen, Hence, If, In, Interchange, Interchanging, Intervene, Land, Leaves, Line, Necessary, Numbers, Odd, Of, One, Or, Other, Perform, Performing, Place, Proportion, Read, Reciprocal, Reciprocally, Regularly, Rocky, Sandy, Second, Series, Singly, Some, Something, Stem, Substitute, Succeed, Succeeding, Succession, Take, That, The, Then, Time, To, Vary, Vicissitude, Which, With

Alternate Quotations Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product. Bo Bennett The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us. Jerry Garcia With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable. Greg Walden Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file. Mike Davidson We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. James Laughlin

Alternate Translations alternate in Dutch is afwisselend alternate in French is alterner, alternez, alternons, alternent, basculez alternate in German is wechseln, alternativ, wechselweise alternate in Spanish is alterno

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