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alternating

/ˈɔltərˌneɪtɪŋ/ /ˈæltərˌneɪtɪŋ/

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verb

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

Examples :

"The children alternated reading aloud from their books in class. "

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verb

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

Examples :

"The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other."

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verb

To vary by turns.

Examples :

"The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains."

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verb

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.

Examples :

"The artist is alternating the vertices of the hexagonal tile pattern, removing every other one to create a new, more complex design. "

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adjective

That alternates.

Examples :

"The alternating red and white stripes painted on the barrier made it very visible. "

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adjective

(of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.

Examples :

"Because the knot's diagram showed the string going over, then under, then over again in an alternating pattern, we knew it was an alternating knot. "

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adjective

(of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.

Examples :

"The alternating signs in the number sequence (1, -2, 3, -4, 5, -6...) indicate that it is an alternating series. "

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adjective

(of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.

Examples :

"The teacher explained that an alternating multilinear function, when given the same value for two adjacent inputs, always results in zero. "