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How to pronounce “alternating”
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Pronunciation guide for alternating
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- Practice the English pronunciation of alternating with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
One is the alternating-current motor
- Definition summary
- present participle and gerund of alternate
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How to pronounce alternating
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

One is the alternating-current motor
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “alternating”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of alternate
- [Adjective]
- That alternates.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
- (mathematics, of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
- (mathematics, of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.
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