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Princeton's WordNet

  1. alternatelyadverb

    in an alternating sequence or position

    "They were deglycerolized by alternately centrifuging and mixing"; "he planted fir and pine trees alternately"

Wiktionary

  1. alternatelyadverb

    In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

  2. alternatelyadverb

    By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Alternatelyadverb

    In reciprocal succession, so that each shall be succeeded by that which it succeeds, as, light follows darkness, and darkness follows light.

    Etymology: from alternate.

    The princess Melesinda, bath’d in tears,
    And toss’d alternately with hopes and fears,
    Would learn from you the fortunes of her lord. Dryden.

    Unhappy man! whom sorrow thus and rage
    To different ills alternately engage. Matthew Prior.

    The rays of light are, by some cause or other, alternately disposed to be reflected or refracted for many vicissitudes. Newton.

ChatGPT

  1. alternately

    Alternately refers to two or more things happening or following one after the other in a repeated pattern or order. It can also mean switching back and forth between two states or conditions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Alternatelyadverb

    in reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order

  2. Alternatelyadverb

    by alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent

Suggested Resources

  1. Alternately

    Alternately vs. Alternatively -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Alternately and Alternatively.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of alternately in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of alternately in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of alternately in a Sentence

  1. Bob Menendez:

    First of all, it's not been explained, and secondly, it's going to create rate shock, so we believe that it should be alternately suspended for now, we don't know the methodology they employ ; we don't know the conclusions they came up to.

  2. John Travolta:

    With no explanation for what theMooses condition is and boy, is whatTravoltadoing a choice Durstand his main star have, rather than giving us a character, merely offered up a hapless, carnival figure of laughable madness, alternately impossible and improbable.

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