alternating

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alternating

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of alternate

adjective

not comparable That alternates. alternating motion
not comparable, of a knot Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
not comparable, of a series Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
not comparable, of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cyclical, cyclic, reciprocating, alternative, rotating, toggling, oscillating, switching, interchanging, fluctuating, successive, staggered, intermittent, back-and-forth, periodic, varying

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adj such that it alternates

Español	alternante
Português	alternante
Français	alternatif, alternant
Italiano	alternato, alternante
Русский	переме́нный pereménnyj, череду́ющийся čeredújuščijsja, попереме́нный popereménnyj

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@misc{alternating_2026,
  title = {alternating},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/alternating},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}