Usually means: In turns, one after another.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. alternately: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. alternately: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alternately: Collins English Dictionary
  4. alternately: Vocabulary.com
  5. Alternately, alternately: Wordnik
  6. alternately: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. alternately: Wiktionary
  8. Alternately, alternately: Dictionary.com
  9. alternately: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Alternately: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. alternately: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. alternately: Rhymezone
  13. Alternately: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. alternately: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. alternately: Free Dictionary
  16. alternately: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. alternately: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. alternately: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternately: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternately: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternately: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alternately)

adverb:  In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
adverb:  (mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
adverb:  (chiefly Canada, US, sometimes proscribed) Alternatively.

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