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Alternate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Being by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; hence reciprocal.

2. And bid alternate passions fall and rise.

3. In botany branches and leaves are alternate when they rise higher on opposite sides alternately, come out singly, and follow in gradual order.

4. Alternate alligation. [ See Alligation .]

5. Alternate angles, in geometry, the internal angles made by a line cutting two parallels, and lying on opposite sides of the cutting line; the one below the first parallel, and the other above the second.

6. In heraldry, the first and fourth quarters, and the second and third, are usually of the same nature, and are called alternate quarters.

Alternate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That which happens by turns with something else; vicissitude.

Alternate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To happen or to act by turns; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.

2. To follow reciprocally in place.

3. Different species alternating with each other.

Alternate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to change one thing for another reciprocally; as, God alternates good and evil.

Alternate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

2. 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; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.

3. Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.

Alternate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.

2. A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.

3. A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

Alternate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.

2. To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

Alternate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.

Alternated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Alternate

Alternately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In reciprocal succession; by turns, so that each is succeeded by that which it succeeds, as night follows day and day follows night.

Alternately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

2. By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.

Alternateness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality of being alternate, or of following in succession.

Alternateness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.