Alternating
adj, verb
adj, verb ·4 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of alternate form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 That alternates. not-comparable
"alternating motion"
- 2 Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot. not-comparable
- 3 Having terms that alternate between positive and negative. not-comparable
- 4 Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal. not-comparable
Adjective
- 1 occurring by turns; first one and then the other wordnet
- 2 (of a current) reversing direction wordnet
Example
More examples"It was a week of alternating snow and rain."