- Take turns - Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in
succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other;
hence, reciprocal. - Designating the members in a series, which regularly
intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even
numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate
members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line. - Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of
the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. - That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. - A substitute; one designated to take the place of
another, if necessary, in performing some duty. - A proportion derived from another proportion by
interchanging the means.