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alternating
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alternating is a polysyllabic word with 4 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, alternating is hyphenated as:
Definitions ofalternating
1verb
- 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.
Example: "The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other."
- To vary by turns.
Example: "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.
1adjective
- 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.
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