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alternation

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Alternation may refer to: Alternation (card game) Alternation (linguistics) , a variation in the phonological form of a morpheme Diathesis alternation Alternation (complexity) , a resource in computational complexity theory R/N alternation, see Rhotacism ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. being regularly exchangeable successive change from one thing or state to another and back again

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Old French alternacion , from Latin alternationem (nominative alternatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of alternare (see alternate (v.)).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 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 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Permutation \Per`mu*ta"tion\, n. [L. permutatio: cf. F. permutation. See Permute .] The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange. The violent convulsions and permutations that have been made in property. --Burke. ...

Usage examples of alternation.

The specific treatment, which should not be omitted, consists in administering doses of ten drops of the tincture of the muriate of iron in alternation with teaspoonful doses of the Golden Medical Discovery, every three hours.

Conditions necessary for these movements--List of Genera and Families, which include sleeping plants--Description of the movements in the several Genera--Oxalis: leaflets folded at night--Averrhoa: rapid movements of the leaflets--Porlieria: leaflets close when plant kept very dry--Tropaeolum: leaves do not sleep unless well illuminated during day--Lupinus: various modes of sleeping--Melilotus: singular movements of terminal leaflet--Trifolium--Desmodium: rudimentary lateral leaflets, movements of, not developed on young plants, state of their pulvini--Cassia: complex movements of the leaflets--Bauhinia: leaves folded at night--Mimosa pudica: compounded movements of leaves, effect of darkness--Mimosa albida, reduced leaflets of--Schrankia: downward movement of the pinnae--Marsilea: the only cryptogam known to sleep--Concluding remarks and summary--Nyctitropism consists of modified circumnutation, regulated by the alternations of light and darkness--Shape of first true leaves.

Few favored an outright duumvirate of twins, but several groups called for joint rule by annual alternation, citing various actual and mythical precedents, as a peaceful resolution of the question.

Utopian philosopher, therefore, was whether this was an inevitable alternation, whether human progress was necessarily a series of developments, collapses, and fresh beginnings, after an interval of disorder, unrest, and often great unhappiness, or whether it was possible to maintain a secure, happy, and progressive State beside an unbroken flow of poietic activity.

It was their top story the next day, morphed in alternation with a shot of the Purist ringleaders, heads covered by police coats, marching to the paddy wagons.

By a sort of stichomythic alternation each for a time is supposed to carry on his speech regardless of the other, so that to follow either connectedly the alternate lines must be read in sequence.

It was from this antiphonal song, this alternation of versicle and respond, that the religious drama of the Middle Ages took its rise.

Now, in contrast to the Occidental thinker, who covets alternation because in his cold climate action is the means of enjoyment, the Hindu, in the languid East, where repose is the condition of enjoyment, conceives the highest blessedness to consist in exemption from every disturbance, in an unruffled unity excluding all changes.

The employment of an infusion of red clover blossoms, in small doses, is of undoubted value in modifying the irritation of the air-passages, and may be used to good advantage with, or in alternation with the Golden Medical Discovery.

Conscientious but morose, I went about my studies, strode dismally through the rectilinear suburban streets to the Kleinhammer-Weg, visited Gretchen Scheffler, who told me about Strength through Joy trips to the land of the midnight sun, while I went right on comparing Goethe with Rasputin or, when I had enough of the cyclic and endless alternation of dark and radiant, took refuge in historical studies.

Every one of us is subject to alternations of overvaluation and undervaluation of ourselves.

That the periodicity is determined by the daily alternations of light and darkness there can hardly be a doubt, as will hereafter be shown.

The island rocked steadily along through the alternations of sun and moon under an empty sky, the air about them still and hot, hotter and stiller the farther south they went.

In the second subclass the modification depends to a large extent on external agencies, such as the daily alternations of light and darkness, or light alone, temperature, or the attraction of gravity.

Each has its huge white Wady, striping the country in alternation with dark-brown divides, and trending coastwards in the usual network.