Usually means: Substitute or second, differing option.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word alternate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. alternate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. alternate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alternate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alternate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alternate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alternate, alternate: Wordnik
  7. alternate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alternate: Wiktionary
  9. alternate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alternate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alternate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. alternate: Dictionary.com
  13. alternate (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. alternate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Alternate (sports), The Alternate (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Alternate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. alternate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. alternate: Rhymezone
  19. Alternate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. alternate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. alternate: Free Dictionary
  22. alternate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. alternate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. alternate: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. alternate: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. alternate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. alternate: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alternate: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  2. alternate: Glossary of Common Tree Terms
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. Alternate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  7. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alternate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
adjective:  (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
adjective:  (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.
adjective:  (US) Other; alternative.
adjective:  (botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
noun:  That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
noun:  (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
noun:  (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
noun:  (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
verb:  (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
verb:  (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
verb:  (intransitive) To vary by turns.
verb:  (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.

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