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alternation
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Definitions ofalternation
1noun
- 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
Example: "alternation between night shifts and day shifts"
- The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
- Ablaut.
- A pattern by which more than one construct is possible, as with "Alice cooked Bob dinner" and "Alice cooked dinner for Bob".
Example: "dative alternation; locative alternation"
- The "inclusive or" truth function.
- A sequence that alternates between positive and negative values; sometimes incorrectly used to mean permutation.
- A construct in a regular expression that can match any of several specified subexpressions.
- A type of partial truncation of a polygon, polyhedron or tiling in which alternate vertices are removed.
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