alternation
awl ter nay shuhn
- n successive change from one thing or state to another and back again
a trill is a rapid alternation between the two notes
- In an ecological system like a forest, for example, squealing might look like an alternation between two stable states barren versus fertile before a drought takes its .
- Clooney keeps impressing me by his alternation of frivolous and serious roles, and his apparently effortless ability to make both convincing.
- The strict alternation of chapters between the '50s and the present feels mechanical, and you start to wish the memoir as frame would temporarily recede.