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Alternating vs Convertible - What's the difference?

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Alternating is a related term of convertible.


As adjectives the difference between alternating and convertible

is that alternating is that alternates while convertible is able to be converted.

As a verb alternating

is .

As a noun convertible is

a car whose roof can be removed or folded.

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

    convertible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be converted
  • (obsolete) Capable of being turned or rotated
  • * 1635 , Nathanael Carpenter, Geography Delineated Forth in Two Bookes (1.4.77)
    • The Axis of the Earth is supposed to haue a convertible nature.
  • Capable of being exchanged or interchanged, reciprocal, interchangeable
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. VI, ''Two Centuries
    • As if, in truth, there were no God of Labour; as if godlike Labour and brutal Mammonism were convertible terms.
  • (finance) Having the right to be converted into a different security, usually common stock, at the holder's option

    • Antonyms

    * inconvertible

    Noun

    (wikipedia convertible) (en noun)
  • A car whose roof can be removed or folded
  • (finance) A hybrid security that can be converted into stock
  • A portable computer that can be physically converted between laptop and tablet configurations.

    • Synonyms

    * (car with removable roof) cabriolet, cabrio (used of European cars), drophead (British), landau, roadster

    See also

    * landaulet ----