Found 1 hit - Term: alternate alligation, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
alternate \alter"nate\ ?; 277, a. l. alternatus, p. p. of
alternate, fr. alternus. see altern, alter.
1. being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in
succession of time or place; by turns first one and then
the other; hence, reciprocal.
1913 webster
and bid alternate passions fall and rise. --pope.
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2. 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; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.; read
every alternate line.
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3. bot. distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights
of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular
divergence. --gray.
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alternate alligation. see alligation.
alternate angles geom., the internal and angles made by
two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. it the
parallels ab, cd, are cut by the line ef, the angles agh,
ghd, as also the angles bgh and ghc, are called alternate
angles.
alternate generation. biol. see under generation.
1913 webster
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