alternating

alternate | American Dictionary

alternate
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈɔl·tərˌneɪt/
to cause two things to happen or exist one after the other:
[ I ]The children alternated between being excited and being tired.
[ T ]I like to alternate physical and intellectual activities.
alternate
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈɔl·tər·nət/
every second, or every other:
I visit my father on alternate weekends.

Note:

Used only about sets of two.
alternate
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɔl·tər·nət/
one that can take the place of another:
David was too sick to attend, so Janet served as his alternate.

alternate | Business English

alternate
noun[ C ]
USuk /ˈɒltənət/us
WORKPLACE
a person who does another person's job when they are ill or away:
He was dismissed and replaced with an alternate.

Examples of alternate

alternate
An alternating pattern may result, for example, from a cyclic component with a period of about 2 days; persisting patterns may arise in several ways.
We want to program a two-person finite game where the players must perform alternate legal moves, until one of them, the loser, cannot move.
The target dose for purely ocular myasthenia is up to 0.75 mg/kg bodyweight on alternate days.
We expect returns from agriculture to be greater and fisheries returns to be less under the alternate management plans as compared with the base model.
Net returns under the alternate management plans are lower than in the base model for all years.
The regular pattern of alternating long and short syllables, which is reversed only in the middle, accounts for the measured pace of both poems.
If central powers tended to do the same for opposite reasons, their attitude towards non-bureaucratic opinion alternated between indifference and hostility.
The climate is tropical and strongly influenced by alternating monsoon and dry seasons.
They were placed in a radial pattern, alternating to form nine pairs.
Based on results indicating high bioavailability and a long half-life, the oral administration of brequinar was recommended on alternate days.
They applied alternating field and thermal cleaning to determine two groups of in situ directions.
In some sonatas the texture is varied by woodwind doublings of strings with flute or oboe, alternating with solo passages for different groups.
In prefixal domains consisting of more than one syllable, a preference for stress on alternating syllables is observed.
The power series of several elementary functions are alternating and decreasing on small rational inputs because the terms are bounded by a geometric series.
Though these changes affected rural areas less dramatically, farmers and herders also sought alternate sources of capital, security and distribution.
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