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Alternating
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
📖 Definitions of "Alternating"
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To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- 2
To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
"The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other."
- 3
To vary by turns.
"The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains."
- 4
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.
- 1
That alternates.
- 2
(of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
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(of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
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(of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.
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