alternating
Meaning of alternating
- (of two or more things) occurring in turn repeatedly.
a season of alternating hot days and cool nights
- occur in turn repeatedly.
bouts of depression alternate with periods of elation
early 16th century (earlier (late Middle English) as alternation ): from Latin alternat- ‘done by turns’, from alternare, from alternus ‘every other’, from alter ‘other’.
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Hyphenation of alternating
al-ter-nat-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- alternating is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
alternating synonyms
Meaning alternate:
Meaning pass to each member of a group in a regularly recurring order:
Meaning vary or fluctuate between two states, limits, opinions, etc:
Meaning rise and fall irregularly in number or amount:
Words that rhyme with alternating
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