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.
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
Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
Potential word match for a segment of ink Alternates are generated by a recognizer and are based on acceptable matches of the ink or audio input against a dictionary, grammar set, or factoid See dictionary, grammar set, factoid Also see candidate
When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other. Her aggressive moods alternated with gentle or more co-operative states The three acts will alternate as headliners throughout the tour Now you just alternate layers of that mixture and eggplant The band alternated romantic love songs with bouncy dance numbers. + alternation alternations al·ter·na·tion The alternation of sun and snow continued for the rest of our holiday
usually refering to leaves, then a single leaf present at each node, (not opposite) The leaves of Abutilon indicum are alternate