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Alternating vs Alternately - What's the difference?

alternating | alternately |

As a verb alternating

is .

As an adjective alternating

is that alternates.

As an adverb alternately is

in reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

alternating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that alternates
  • (mathematics, of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
  • (mathematics, of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.

    • Derived terms

    * alternating current

    alternately

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
  • (mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.