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1. A successive change from one thing or state to another and back again.
2. Repeated rotations: People expect to experience alternations of the seasons.
3. In linguistics, a variation in the form of a language as it occurs in different environments or under different conditions.
2. Repeated rotations: People expect to experience alternations of the seasons.
3. In linguistics, a variation in the form of a language as it occurs in different environments or under different conditions.
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(Latin: substitute; change, alternation)
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“alternation”
Succession of sexually and asexually formed groups of offspring belonging to a given species of organisms; metagenesis: Examples of the alternation of generations are microspheric and megalospheric foraminifers, polyps, and medusa stages of some coelenterates (invertebrate lacking a backbone or spinal column), etc.
"Coelenterates" are radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms.
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