Meaning

• 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.

• Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.

Meaning

• 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.

  "The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other."

• To vary by turns.

  "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.

Meaning

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

  "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.

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

• Other; alternative.

  "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.

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