| Alter |
v. t. |
To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. |
| Alter |
v. t. |
To agitate; to affect mentally. |
| Alter |
v. t. |
To geld. |
| Alter |
v. i. |
To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. |
| Alterability |
n. |
The quality of being alterable; alterableness. |
| Alterable |
a. |
Capable of being altered. |
| Alterableness |
n. |
The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability. |
| Alterably |
adv. |
In an alterable manner. |
| Alterant |
a. |
Altering; gradually changing. |
| Alterant |
n. |
An alterative. |
| Alteration |
n. |
The act of altering or making different. |
| Alteration |
n. |
The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. |
| Alterative |
a. |
Causing ateration. |
| Alterative |
a. |
Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. |
| Alterative |
n. |
A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations. |
| Altercate |
v. i. |
To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle. |
| Altercated |
imp. & p. p. |
of Altercate |
| Altercating |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Altercate |
| Altercation |
n. |
Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. |
| Altercative |
a. |
Characterized by wrangling; scolding. |
| Altered |
imp. & p. p. |
of Alter |
| Altering |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Alter |
| Alterity |
n. |
The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. |
| Altern |
a. |
Acting by turns; alternate. |
| Alternacy |
n. |
Alternateness; alternation. |
| Alternant |
v. t. |
Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks. |
| Alternat |
n. |
A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations. |
| Alternate |
a. |
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. |
| Alternate |
a. |
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; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line. |
| Alternate |
a. |
Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. |
| Alternate |
n. |
That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. |
| Alternate |
n. |
A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty. |
| Alternate |
n. |
A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means. |
| Alternate |
v. t. |
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly. |
| Alternate |
v. i. |
To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time;
followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. |
| Alternate |
v. i. |
To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains. |
| Alternated |
imp. & p. p. |
of Alternate |
| Alternately |
adv. |
In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order. |
| Alternately |
adv. |
By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent. |
| Alternateness |
n. |
The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns. |
| Alternating |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Alternate |
| Alternating current |
|
A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow. |
| Alternation |
n. |
The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear. |
| Alternation |
n. |
Permutation. |
| Alternation |
n. |
The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. |
| Alternative |
a. |
Offering a choice of two things. |
| Alternative |
a. |
Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. |
| Alternative |
a. |
Alternate; reciprocal. |
| Alternative |
n. |
An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. |
| Alternative |
n. |
Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives. |
| Alternative |
n. |
The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. |
| Alternative |
n. |
A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. |
| Alternatively |
adv. |
In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things. |
| Alternativeness |
n. |
The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two. |
| Alternator |
n. |
An electric generator or dynamo for producing alternating currents. |
| Alternity |
n. |
Succession by turns; alternation. |
