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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Successive change from one thing or state to another and back again.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The reciprocal succession of (normally two) things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
  • n. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
  • n. ablaut
  • n. The "inclusive or" truth function.
  • n. A sequence that alternates between positive and negative values. (Sometimes wrongly used to mean a permutation.)
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence.
  • n. Permutation.
  • n. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of alternating, or the state of being alternate; the reciprocal succession of things in time or place, or of states or actions; the act of following something and being in turn followed by it: as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter.
  • n. Passage back and forth; repeated transition; the action of going from one state, condition, or point to another, and back again, indefinitely: as, alternation between states of mind or between places; his alternations from one point to the other were very frequent.
  • n. In mathematics: The different changes or alterations of order in numbers. More commonly called permutation.
  • n. Alternate proportion (which see, under alternate, a.).
  • n. 4. In church ritual, the saying or reading of parts of a service by minister and congregation alternately.
  • n. In phytogeography, the discontinuous occurrence of a plant type due to local variations in the conditions. See the extract.
  • n. In electricity, the time of one reversal, or one half-wave of alternating current. One alternation therefore is one half-cycle. The frequency of an alternating current formerly was given in alternations per minute. See alternating.
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  • n. successive change from one thing or state to another and back again
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    succession    sequence   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    permutation    interchange    interchangeableness    variation    rotation   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    reiteration    ebb    cadence    progression    recurrence   
     
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