alternating

English

Verb

alternating

1. present participle and gerund of alternate

Adjective

alternating (not comparable)

1. That alternates.

   alternating motion

   alternating system

2. (mathematics, of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
3. (mathematics, of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
4. (mathematics, of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.

Derived terms

• alternating caps
• alternating case
• alternatingly
• alternating series test
• alternating Turing machine
• nonalternating
• polyalternating
• subalternating
• unalternating

Translations

such that it alternates

Bulgarian: редуващ се (reduvašt se), променлив (bg) (promenliv) Czech: (of current) střídavý (cs) m Dutch: (please verify) wissel- (nl) , (please verify) afwisselend (nl) Finnish: vaihtuva (fi), vaihteleva (fi), vuorottainen, vuorotteleva (fi), vaihto- (fi), vuoro- (fi) French: alternatif (fr), alternant (fr) German: (please verify) Wechsel- (de) , (please verify) abwechselnd (de), (please verify) alternierend (de) Irish: malartach Italian: alternato (it), alternante (it) Latin: alternāns Maori: kīnakinaki Portuguese: alternante Russian: переме́нный (ru) (pereménnyj), череду́ющийся (ru) (čeredújuščijsja), попереме́нный (ru) m (popereménnyj) Spanish: alternante, alterno (es), alternativo (es) Welsh: bob yn ail, eiledol (cy)

math, knot theory

Finnish: vuorotteleva (fi)

math, series theory

Bulgarian: знакопроменлив (znakopromenliv) Finnish: vuorotteleva (fi)

math, multilinear algebra

Derived terms

• alternating current

Further reading

• Alternating multilinear map on Wikipedia.Wikipedia