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alternation

noun

1 alternation

Successive change from one thing or state to another and back again.

Roget 314: oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation; undulation; pulsation; pulse.    alternation; coming and going etc. v.; ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ... show more

Roget 605: irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination; unsettlement; uncertainty etc. 475; demur, suspense; hesitating etc. v., ... show more

Roget 149: changeableness etc. adj.; mutability, inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium; vacillation etc. (irresolution) 605; fluctuation, ... show more

Roget 145: reversion, return; revulsion.    turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a storm.    alternation etc. (periodicity) 138; inversion etc. ... show more

Roget 138: periodicity, intermittence; beat; oscillation etc. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm; alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity.    bout, ... show more

Roget 70: discontinuity; disjunction etc. 44; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap etc. ... show more

Roget 148: interchange, exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement; shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling (at chess); ... show more

Dutch: afwisseling, alternantie, alternatie


Moby thesaurus: Lissajous figure, back-and-forth, battledore and shuttlecock, beat, chain, coaction, coming and going, commutation, complementary distribution, concurrence, consecution, cooperation, counterchange, cross fire, cyclicalness, ebb and flow, engagement, exchange, fluctuation, flux and reflux ... show more.

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