ALTERNATING
12
Scrabble
16
WWF
A(1) L(1) T(1) E(1) R(1) N(1) A(1) T(1) I(1) N(1) G(2)
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Definition
verb
- To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.“The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.”
- To vary by turns.“The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.”
- To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
adjective
- That alternates.
- (of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
- (of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
- (of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.
Source: Wiktionary
