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alternation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | sequence, succession |
| Derivation | alternate |
a trill is a rapid alternation between the two notes.
Examples of alternation
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Good news, but I hope they don't press for an end to runway alternation instead.
From the guardian.co.uk
Bemba indicates causative verbs through alternation of the stem-final consonant.
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That alternation reflected the internal struggles of the Basque warrior nobility.
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Its arrival in the presidency would represent a healthy alternation of power.
From the economist.com
These deposits coincide with the alternation of wet and dry climatic periods.
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There are also morphophonemic changes, such as deletion, alternation and metathesis.
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Modern Western square dance is sometimes presented in alternation with round dances.
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Kelp are an example of a brown alga with a heteromorphic alternation of generations.
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Your second point about alternation of power in Nigeria is also not entirely correct.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Successive change from one thing or state to another and back again; "a trill is a rapid alternation between the two notes"
- Alternate(a): every second one of a series; "the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays"; "jam every other day"- the White Queen
- (alternate) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- (alternate) surrogate: someone who takes the place of another person
- (alternate) serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan"
- (alternate) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- In computational complexity theory, an alternating Turing machine (ATM) is a non-deterministic Turing machine (NTM) with a rule for accepting computations that generalizes the rules used in the definition of the complexity classes NP and co-NP. ...
- In geometry, an alternation (also called partial truncation, snub or snubification) is an operation on a polyhedron or tiling that birectifies alternate vertices. Only even-sided polyhedra can be alternated, for example the zonohedra. Every 2n-sided face becomes n-sided. ...
- In linguistics, an alternation is the phenomenon of a phoneme or morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological realization. Each of the various realizations is called an alternant. ...
