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Meaning:
Adjective:
- 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.
- botany Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. --Gray.
- math 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.
- US Other or alternative.
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Noun:
- A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- heraldry Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
- math A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- US A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
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Verb:
- intransitive To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time;—followed by with.
- intransitive To vary by turns.
- transitive To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
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