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Definition of Alternation
1. Noun. Successive change from one thing or state to another and back again. "A trill is a rapid alternation between the two notes"
Definition of Alternation
1. n. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
Definition of Alternation
1. Noun. The reciprocal succession of (normally two) things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear. ¹
2. Noun. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. ¹
3. Noun. (linguistics) ablaut ¹
4. Noun. (logic) The "''inclusive or''" truth function. ¹
5. Noun. (mathematics) A sequence that alternates between positive and negative values. (Sometimes wrongly used to mean a permutation.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alternation
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Medical Definition of Alternation
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1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alternation
Literary usage of Alternation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"It consists in the regular alternation of a part which bears the sexual organs—thu
gametophyte—and of a non-sexual part which produces the spores—the ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"IN the course of an investigation three years ago (1914) on the frequency of
alternation of the pulse, interesting groups of cases were accumulated and ..."
3. Research Methods in Ecology by Frederic Edward Clements (1905)
"Competition plays a very important role in alternation. It produces minor examples
of alternation in the physical units of an asymmetrical series. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"(2) On alternation of Generations in Green Plants. By J. REYNOLDS VAIZEY, BA The
objects of this paper are to discuss the origin of alternation of ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"later stage showing spores, s, developed from the Ver mother cells, alternation
of generations is just as dea- nitely present in plants above and below tbi ..."
6. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae) by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"CHAPTER XV THE NATURE OF THE alternation OF GENERATIONS THE origin and significance
of the phenomenon of the alternation of generations, so characteristic ..."
7. Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music: Together with Music as a by George Lansing Raymond (1894)
"... and alternation as Influencing the Use of Alliteration, Assonance, and Rhyme—Of
alternation as Developed from Parallelism and Balance—Balancing Series ..."
8. The Evolution of Sex in Plants by John Merle Coulter (1914)
"CHAPTER V alternation OF GENERATION'S In general, the consideration of this
subject begins with ... alternation of generations consists in the separation of ..."
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