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Another word for alternation

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alternation

n.

variation, rotation, transposition, shift; see interchange 2.

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Another word for alternation

noun

Occurrence in successive turns:

interchange, rotation. See change

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Hence the alternation is of the type termed metagenesis.
The battle represents the eternal conflict between light and darkness, the alternation of day and night.
But rhyme was not attempted, and the syllabic metre of Japan was preserved, the alternation of 5 and 7 being, however, dispensed with.
There is no satisfactory explanation of this break in the regular alternation of successive whorls; the outer whorl' of stamens arises in course of development before the inner, so that there is no question of subsequent displacement.
Life-history always very simple, no wellmarked alternation of generations; basidium borne directly on the mycelium.

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