Lexic.us

Definition of Alternative

1. Noun. One of a number of things from which only one can be chosen. "My only choice is to refuse"

2. Adjective. Serving or used in place of another. "An alternative plan"

3. Adjective. Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities. "Alternative possibilities were neutrality or war"

4. Adjective. Pertaining to unconventional choices. "An alternative life style"

Definition of Alternative

1. a. Offering a choice of two things.

2. n. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.

Definition of Alternative

1. Adjective. Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities ¹

2. Adjective. Not traditional (''an alternative lifestyle'') ¹

3. Adjective. Other ¹

4. Noun. A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

5. Noun. One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

6. Noun. The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted. (defdate from 18th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alternative

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Alternative

1. Available in place of something else. (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alternative

alternating current alternating currents alternating function alternating functions alternating knot alternating light test alternating mydriasis alternating pulse alternating strabismus alternating tremor

alternatingly alternation alternation of generation alternations alternative (current term) alternative RNA splicing alternative algebra alternative birth alternative birthing alternative country

alternative dispute resolution alternative energy alternative hypotheses alternative hypothesis alternative inheritance alternative lifestyle alternative lifestyles alternative mRNA splicing alternative medicine

Literary usage of Alternative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"[1] It is insisted by the respondents that the peremptory writ should not issue because the alternative writ was executed as to two members of the council ..."

2. Principles of Contract: Being a Treatise on the General Principles by Sir Frederick Pollock (1885)
"We find the rule clearly stated in the We one"" Digest (»)• Where one of two things contracted for in must be the alternative subsequently becomes ..."

3. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1902)
"AN alternative LINE FOR THE NICARAGUA CANAL; AND A PROPOSED NEW METHOD OF DAM ... CE—This project for an alternative route for a Nicaragua Canal comes ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
""Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution. XII. —On a Generalised Theory of alternative Inheritance, with Special Reference to Mendel's Laws. ..."

5. The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius, Meric Casaubon (1898)
"... peculiarities of punctuation have not been reproduced ; a parenthetical alternative has HOTV and then been omitted ; the spelling of af civ proper names ..."

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