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Definition of Alternations
1. alternation [n] - See also: alternation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alternations
Literary usage of Alternations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Geology: Practical and Theoretical by John Phillips (1855)
"Alternations of laminated and other sandstones, shales, ironstone, and COAL...
2. ... Tyne bottom limestone 800 Alternations in the upper part of which the ..."
2. Growth During School Age: Its Application to Education by Paul Godin (1920)
"Relative independence of the evolution of growth to great alternations. ...
We were acquainted with the short alternations or at least with a certain number ..."
3. Principles of Electrical Engineering by Harold Pender (1911)
"Period, Frequency, Alternations, Periodicity and Phase. — To avoid repetition
the following definitions arc given in terms of an alternating current; ..."
4. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1893)
"Alternations and Associations of Strata.—Though great variations occur in the
nature of ... Such alternations bring before us the conditions under which the ..."
5. A Treatise on the Theory of Algebraical Equations by Robert Murphy (1839)
"14, namely, that the number of positive roots cannot exceed the number of
alternations, nor can the number of negative roots exceed the number of ..."
6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"To test the above explanation it is necessary to review the main facts with
reference to alternations of generations amongst the ..."
7. Natural Law in the Business World by Henry Wood (1887)
"Alternations OF PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION. ... The alternations of what are
popularly known as good times and hard times, ..."
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