alternating
- Verb. (present participle of, alternate) .
- Adjective. that alternates.
- Adjective. (mathematics, of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
- Adjective. (mathematics, of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
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