Definition of Alternations

1. Noun. (plural of alternation) ¹

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Definition of Alternations

1. alternation [n] - See also: alternation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alternations

alternating(a)
alternating current
alternating currents
alternating function
alternating functions
alternating knot
alternating light test
alternating mydriasis
alternating pulse
alternating strabismus
alternating tremor
alternatingly
alternation
alternation of generation
alternations (current term)
alternative
alternative RNA splicing
alternative algebra
alternative birth
alternative birthing
alternative country
alternative dispute resolution
alternative energy
alternative hypotheses
alternative hypothesis
alternative inheritance
alternative lifestyle
alternative lifestyles
alternative mRNA splicing

Literary usage of Alternations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Geology: Practical and Theoretical by John Phillips (1855)
"alternations of laminated and other sandstones, shales, ironstone, and COAL... 2. ... Tyne bottom limestone 800 alternations in the upper part of which the ..."

2. Growth During School Age: Its Application to Education by Paul Godin (1920)
"Relative independence of the evolution of growth to great alternations. ... We were acquainted with the short alternations or at least with a certain number ..."

3. Principles of Electrical Engineering by Harold Pender (1911)
"Period, Frequency, alternations, Periodicity and Phase. — To avoid repetition the following definitions arc given in terms of an alternating current; ..."

4. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1893)
"alternations and Associations of Strata.—Though great variations occur in the nature of ... Such alternations bring before us the conditions under which the ..."

5. A Treatise on the Theory of Algebraical Equations by Robert Murphy (1839)
"14, namely, that the number of positive roots cannot exceed the number of alternations, nor can the number of negative roots exceed the number of ..."

6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"To test the above explanation it is necessary to review the main facts with reference to alternations of generations amongst the ..."

7. Natural Law in the Business World by Henry Wood (1887)
"alternations OF PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION. ... The alternations of what are popularly known as good times and hard times, ..."

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