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alternative | version |

As nouns the difference between alternative and version

is that alternative is alternative while version is version.

alternative

English

(wikipedia alternative)

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities
    • an alternative proposition
  • Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, (alternative rock)).
  • Other.
  • alternate; reciprocal
    • (Holland)

    Derived terms

    * alternative dispute resolution * alternative energy * alternative lifestyle * alternative medicine * alternative press * alternative vote

    Related terms

    * alternate * alternativeness * alternativism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
  • * 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , XI:
    • ‘The cloister or a betrothed husband?’ I echoed—‘Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?’
  • One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
  • The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

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    References

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    version

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A specific form or variation of something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
  • A translation from one language to another.
  • (obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
  • An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
  • (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
  • (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
  • (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
  • (obsolete, or, medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The version of air into water.

    Synonyms

    * ver,

    See also

    * CVS * revision control * versioning * bible

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To keep track of (a file, document, etc.) in a versioning system.

    • Anagrams

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