adjective Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
adjective Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
adjective Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
adjective Other; alternative.
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adjective Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).
noun That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
noun A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
An alternate for the first-string quarterback played the entire first half.
noun A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.