[{"word":"alternating","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other."},{"definition":"To vary by turns.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains."},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"adjective","definitions":[{"definition":"That alternates.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between \"over\" and \"under\" as one travels along the knot.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternate","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternating"]}]