ppl. a. [f. ALTERNATE v. + -ING2.] a. Succeeding each other by turns. b. Occurring in alternation to something else. c. Consisting of alternations.

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1837.  W. Howitt, Rur. Life, III. iii. (1862), 230. A land of alternating ridge and hollow.

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1841.  Trimmer, Pract. Geol., 180. Large masses which occupy extensive districts … without any other alternating rock.

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1855.  Bain, Senses & Intell., I. ii. § 18 (1864), 50. An alternating movement is thus kept up.

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1862.  Trench, Mirac., xxix. 415. Alternating ebbs and flows.

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