alternate: المعنى والتعريفات

To occur in a successive manner: day alternating with night.

To act or proceed by turns: The students alternated at the computer.

To pass back and forth from one state, action, or place to another: alternated between happiness and depression.

Electricity To reverse direction at regular intervals in a circuit.

To do or execute by turns.

To cause to alternate: alternated light and dark squares to form a pattern.

Happening or following in turns; succeeding each other continuously: alternate seasons of the year. See Usage Note at alternative.

Designating or relating to every other one of a series: alternate lines.

Serving or used in place of another; substitute: an alternate plan.

Botany Arranged singly at each node, as leaves or buds on different sides of a stem.

Botany Arranged regularly between other parts, as stamens between petals.

A person acting in the place of another; a substitute.

An alternative.