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  1. intransitive verb To occur in a successive manner: day alternating with night.
  2. intransitive verb To act or proceed by turns: The students alternated at the computer.
  3. intransitive verb To pass back and forth from one state, action, or place to another: alternated between happiness and depression.
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  • Every big idea that comes along -- alternate history, say, or terraforming -- opens up a new niche, and dozens of new branches can grow into it where none had been before. —  F ;SF - vol 102 issue 04 - April 2002
  • I wonder what they call their alternate "free market" universe for banksters? —  Firedoglake
  • This is an alternate which is provided, your afford superior online deaden reservoir. —  Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins
  • Set in what seems to be some kind of alternate-universe Brazil, Michiko to Hatchin tells the story of Hana Morenos. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • This file is known as the alternate or secondary shadow. —  Computing on Demand
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multiple ·  successive ·  previous ·  above ·  final ·  vertical ·  continuous

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alternate:   alternated ·  alternating ·  alternates
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin alternāre, alternāt-, from alternus, by turns, from alter, other; see al-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin alternatus, past participle of alternare, do by turns, from alternus, alternate, reciprocal: see altern.
  2. from Latin alternatus, past participle of alternare: see alternate, v.
 

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