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variation
(Astron.) A change in or deviation from the mean motion or orbit of a planet, satellite, etc.
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  1. (Astron.) A change in or deviation from the mean motion or orbit of a planet, satellite, etc.
  2. The degree or extent of such change
  3. The act, fact, or process of varying; change or deviation in form, condition, appearance, extent, etc. from a former or usual state, or from an assumed standard
rotation
The act or process of turning around a center or an axis:
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  1. The act or process of turning around a center or an axis:
  2. A single complete cycle of such motion.
  3. Regular and uniform variation in a sequence or series:
transposition
The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
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  1. The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
  2. (Music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
  3. (Chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
shift
(Physics) A change in the observed frequency of a wave, as of light or sound
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  1. (Physics) A change in the observed frequency of a wave, as of light or sound
  2. (Linguis.) A phonetic change or series of changes that alters the system of sounds in a language
  3. A change in direction:
interchange
The act or process of interchanging.
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  1. The act or process of interchanging.
  2. A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
  3. (Rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
rotation
The act or process of turning around a center or an axis:
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  1. The act or process of turning around a center or an axis:
  2. A rotating or being rotated
  3. Regular and uniform variation in a sequence or series:
Find another word for alternation. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for alternation, like: variation, rotation, transposition, shift, interchange, interchange, rotation and change.

Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • The oldest strata, consisting of gypsiferous marls, are referred to the Muschelkalk and show an alternation of lagoon with marine conditions.

  • The number of lines is not compulsory: sometimes they may reach to thirty, forty or even more, but the alternation of 5 and 7 syllables is compulsory.

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