ALL meanings of alternating
al·ter·nate
A a - adjective alternating happening in succession 3
- verb without object alternating to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate (usually followed by with): Day alternates with night. 1
- verb without object alternating to change back and forth between conditions, states, actions, etc.: He alternates between hope and despair. 1
- verb without object alternating to take turns: My sister and I alternated in doing the dishes. 1
- verb without object alternating Electricity. to reverse direction or sign periodically. 1
- verb without object alternating Linguistics. to occur as a variant in alternation with another form. 1
- verb with object alternating to perform or do in succession or one after another: to alternate comedy acts; to alternate jogging and walking. 1
- verb with object alternating to interchange successively or regularly: to alternate hot and cold compresses. 1
- adjective alternating being in a constant state of succession or rotation; interchanged repeatedly one for another: Winter and summer are alternate seasons. 1
- adjective alternating reciprocal; mutual: alternate acts of kindness. 1
- adjective alternating every second one of a series: Read only the alternate lines. 1
- adjective alternating constituting an alternative: The alternate route is more scenic. 1
- adjective alternating alternative (defs 4, 6). 1
- adjective alternating Botany. placed singly at different heights on the axis, on each side in succession, or at definite angular distances from one another, as leaves. opposite to the intervals between other organs: petals alternate with sepals. 1
- noun alternating a person authorized to fill the position, exercise the duties, etc., of another who is temporarily absent; substitute. 1
- noun alternating Theater. either of two actors who take turns playing the same role. an understudy. 1
- abbreviation ALTERNATING alternative. 1
- noun alternating Present participle of alternate. 1
- adjective alternating that alternates. 0
- adjective alternating (mathematics, of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot. 0
- adjective alternating (mathematics, of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative. 0