Dictionary

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.

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

A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

A replacement of equal or greater value or function.

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.

Example: The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.

To vary by turns.

Example: The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

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.

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

Example: alternate picking is a guitar playing technique

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: the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.

Other; alternative.

Example: He lives in an alternate universe and an alternate reality.

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

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