alternate
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- n someone who takes the place of another person
- v go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- v exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- v be an understudy or alternate for a role
- v reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- v do something in turns
- s every second one of a series
the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays - s serving or used in place of another
- s occurring by turns; first one and then the other
- a of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired
stems with alternate leaves
- The first credible suggestion that alternate universes might exist came in the early 1950s when a young physics graduate student named Hugh Everett was toying with some of the more .