alternation.
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
Meaning & usage
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
the alternation of day and night
alternation of summer and winter
The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
Ablaut.
A pattern by which more than one construct is possible, as with "Alice cooked Bob dinner" and "Alice cooked dinner for Bob".
dative alternation; locative alternation
The "inclusive or" truth function.
A sequence that alternates between positive and negative values.
A permutation.
A construct in a regular expression that can match any of several specified subexpressions.
A type of partial truncation of a polygon, polyhedron or tiling in which alternate vertices are removed.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin alternatio; compare French alternation. By surface analysis, alternate + -ion.
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