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Definition of Alternately
1. Adverb. In an alternating sequence or position. "He planted fir and pine trees alternately"
Definition of Alternately
1. adv. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
Definition of Alternately
1. Adverb. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order. ¹
2. Adverb. (mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alternately
1. [adv]
Medical Definition of Alternately
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1. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alternately
Literary usage of Alternately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pelicotetics, Or, The Science of Quantity: Or, The Science of Quantity. An by Archibald Sandeman (1868)
"For if A :B= C:D where AB CD are magnitudes of one kind alternately (art. 274)
A:C = B\D. Therefore (art.25i) any multiples whatever of A and C are in the ..."
2. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting by Southern Educational Association, Florida State Teachers Association, National Educational Association (U.S.), Southern Association of College Women (1873)
"Memory and dictation alternately. 4. Object-lessons and geometric definitions
... Objects from blackboard and drawing; from text-book alternately. 2. ..."
3. The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.: With a View of the by William Robertson (1769)
"Towns BOOK VI. were alternately loft and retaken; ... and threats, alternately,
in order to procure it. But he found the former fixed in his ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... they again give the Mendelian ratio 1:2:1; because the free A and the free G
alternately dominate and become latent, so that the germ cells are A(G~) ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"Meetings were alternately held in the rooms of the warden of Wadham (Wilkins)
and at Boyle's lodgings, adjoining University College, and experiments were ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"the judges were alternately swayed by the laws of justice and by the clamours of
faction.68 The chamberlain Eusebius, who had so long abused the favour of ..."
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