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What is the adjective for alternates?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb alternate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

alternative
  1. Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities
  2. Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, alternative rock).
  3. Other; different from something else.
  4. alternate; reciprocal
  5. Synonyms:
      6. different, other, substitute, alternate, another, replacement, second, possible, surrogate, cover, proxy, relief, reserve, standby, stand-in, auxiliary, backup, complementary, deputy, fallback, emergency, fill-in, back-up, non-standard, pinch-hitting, spare, extra, additional, ancillary, surplus, in reserve, fall-back, supplementary, secondary, supernumerary, free, fresh, in store, equivalent, redundant, superfluous, subsidiary, supporting, temporary, makeshift, stopgap, leftover, optional, duplicate, supererogatory … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “Managers have promised to find alternative roles within the company for as many of the laid-off staff as possible.”
      “He finds mainstream music boring and chooses to write songs with alternative rhythms and harmonies instead.”
alternate
  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.
  2. (mathematics) 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.
  3. (US) Other; alternative.
  4. (botany) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. alternative, second, other, different, another, possible, complementary, equivalent, substitute, replacement, surrogate, reserve, backup, proxy, standby, temporary, relief, provisional, deputy, stopgap, auxiliary, supplementary, stand-in, supplemental, makeshift, substitutive, fill-in, tentative, pinch-hitting, acting, interim, caretaker, locum, provisory, provisionary, additional, intervening, ancillary, supernumerary, transitional, extra, short-term, pro tem, fall-back, ad interim, second-string, pro tempore, temp, new, dummy … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “You could hire a professional accountant. An alternate option would be to do your taxes yourself.”
      “This is related to the demonstration of the feasibility of an alternate system as a backup to the program.”
      “Continue to fill the mold with alternate layers of foie gras, slices of truffle, and puree.”
alternating
  1. That alternates.
  2. (mathematics) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
  3. (mathematics) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
  4. (mathematics) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. interchanging, rotating, oscillating, alternate, cyclic, cyclical, seesawing, changing, fluctuating, shifting, swinging, vacillating, occurring by turns, occurring in turns, variable, erratic, unstable, irregular, unsteady, inconsistent, volatile, inconstant, changeable, unpredictable, uneven, uncertain, wavering, every other, capricious, varying, deviating, unequal, waffling, every second, flexible, ranging, sequential, in rotation, following in sequence, dynamic, temperamental, turbulent, mutable, fluid, moving, whimsical, fickle, mercurial, nonuniform, unsettled … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “One's eye is immediately drawn to the relief decoration of alternating acanthus and palm leaves that encircles the body just above the base.”
alternant
  1. Alternating from one row of a matrix to another.
  2. (geology) Composed of alternate layers, like certain rocks.
alternifoliate
  1. (botany) Having leaves that alternate on each side of a stem
altern
  1. Acting by turns; alternate.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The club also launched the careers of bands like The Prodigy, Altern 8, Leftside and Moby.”
      “New arrivals in the top 20, saw evapor 8 by Altern e 8 and ZZ Top's version of Viva Las Vegas come straight in at number ten and number 17 respectively.”
alternated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of alternate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. changed, altered, modified, adjusted, amended, edited, molded, redesigned, revamped, revised, reworked, rewrought, adapted, modulated, refashioned, tempered, tweaked, made over, moderated, morphed, reconstructed, redid, regenerated, remade, remodeled, remodelled, remoulded, renovated, reorganized, restyled, retooled, diversified, fashioned, freshened up, improved, moulded, readjusted, rearranged, reconfigured, rejigged, remolded, reorganised, replaced, reshaped, revolutionised, revolutionized, tampered with, translated, warped, affected … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The alternated pattern of colored blocks created a visually striking design on the wall.”
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