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English
Verb
alternating
- present participle and gerund of alternate
Adjective
alternating (not comparable)
- That alternates.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
- (mathematics, of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
- (mathematics, of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.
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Translations
such that it alternates
- Bulgarian: редуващ се (reduvašt se), променлив (bg) (promenliv)
- Czech: (of current) střídavý (cs) m
- Dutch: (please verify) wissel- (nl) , (please verify) afwisselend (nl)
- Finnish: vaihtuva (fi), vaihteleva (fi), vuorottainen, vuorotteleva (fi), vaihto- (fi), vuoro- (fi)
- French: alternatif (fr), alternant (fr)
- German: (please verify) Wechsel- (de) , (please verify) abwechselnd (de), (please verify) alternierend (de)
- Irish: malartach
- Italian: alternato (it), alternante (it)
- Maori: kīnakinaki
- Portuguese: alternante
- Russian: переме́нный (ru) (pereménnyj), череду́ющийся (ru) (čeredújuščijsja), попереме́нный (ru) m (popereménnyj)
- Spanish: alternante, alterno (es), alternativo (es)
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math, multilinear algebra
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