How to pronounce “alternate”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
• (mathematics) 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.
• (US) Other; alternative.
• (botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence[1]
• [Noun]
• That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
• (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
• (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
• (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
• (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
• (intransitive) To vary by turns.
• (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.

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