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Meaning of "alternant" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ALTERNANT

From French, from Latin alternāre to alternate.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ALTERNANT

ɔːlˈtɜːnənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALTERNANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Alternant is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ALTERNANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Alternation (linguistics)

In linguistics, an alternation is the phenomenon of a phoneme or morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological realization. Each of the various realizations is called an alternant. The variation may be conditioned by the phonological, morphological, and/or syntactic environment in which the morpheme finds itself. Alternations provide linguists with data that allow them to determine the allophones and allomorphs of a language's phonemes and morphemes and to develop analyses determining the distribution of those allophones and allomorphs.

Definition of alternant in the English dictionary

The definition of alternant in the dictionary is alternating.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALTERNANT

component · continent · covenant · dominant · eminent · imminent · lieutenant · malignant · misdemeanant · opponent · permanent · pertinent · predominant · pregnant · prominent · resonant · secernent · subalternant · tenant · vernant

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALTERNANT

alternance · alternat · alternate · alternate angles · alternate history · alternate reality game · alternately · alternatim · alternating · alternating current · alternating-gradient focusing · alternation · alternation of generations · alternative · alternative comedian · alternative comedy · alternative curriculum · alternative energy · alternative history · alternative hypothesis

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALTERNANT

complainant · consonant · contaminant · Dinant · discriminant · Dunant · first lieutenant · flight lieutenant · indignant · non-malignant · pennant · poignant · premalignant · recombinant · regnant · remnant · repugnant · revenant · ruminant · stagnant

Synonyms and antonyms of alternant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «alternant» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ALTERNANT

Find out the translation of alternant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of alternant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «alternant» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

交互
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

alternante
570 millions of speakers
en

English

alternant
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

alternant
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

alternant
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

альтернантны
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

alternant
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

alternant
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

alternant
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Alternant
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Altern
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

交互の
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

alternant
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Alternator
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

alternant
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மாற்று வடிவம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Alternant
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

alternan
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

alternant
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

alternant
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

альтернантни
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

alternant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εναλλασόμενος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

alternant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

alternant
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

alternant
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of alternant

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALTERNANT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of alternant
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about alternant

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALTERNANT»

Discover the use of alternant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to alternant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Electroencephalography: Basic Principles, Clinical ...
To distinguish a normal trace alternant from an abnormal suppression burst-like pattern: 1. Run the record long enough to find out if this alternating pattern is transient (trace alternant) or constant (abnormal). 2. Distinguish between stretches of ...
Ernst Niedermeyer, F. H. Lopes da Silva, 2005
2
Chemical Bonds: A Dialog
Figure 13.1 234 Huckel molecular orbital diagrams for (a) odd; and (b) even alternant hydrocarbons; (c) non- alternant hydrocarbon, 13.2-13.4 respectively of atoms have to lie together because of the way the atoms are linked together, then a ...
Jeremy K. Burdett, 1997
3
The English Language Volume 2 Essays by Linguistics and Men ...
The inflected forms of the verb be in the four usual inflectional categories are as follows: 3d singular is (base alternant /i/, suffix alternant /z/) ; preterit was and were (base alternants /waz/ and /wshr/ in complementary distribution,2 suffix ...
4
Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
other alternant, mo't, occurs only before the stress. Here we can turn the statement around, as we could not in the case of / -az/. We can say that whenever the stress is on the unit mawt, the alternant which appears is mawt, and whenever the ...
Francis Katamba, 2004
5
Block Error-Correcting Codes: A Computational Primer
See also binary alphabet. alternant bounds (182) For an alternant code C, dc p, r + 1 (alternant bound for the minimum distance) and n — r ^ kc > n — rm (alternant bounds for the dimension), where r is the order on the alternant control matrix ...
Sebastian Xambo-Descamps, 2003
6
Readings in Linguistics I & II
Instead of supposing a zero-alternant of the emphatic morpheme, suppose a morpheme with no phonemic shape, whose sole meaning or rather function is to signify whether the first or the second member of the compound potentially bears  ...
Eric P. Hamp, 1995
7
Research Guide on Language Change
If, for example, the alternant is the focus, change can be described as “alternant modification” or “alternant extension”. Alternant modification represents an organically developing phonological change, which is either unconditioned (by its ...
Edgar C. Polomé, 1990
8
Perspectives on Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry
structures are alternant, whether they have an even or odd number of p centers. All even membered rings are alternant, but all oddmembered rings are nonalternant. Some bicyclic systemsarealternant, butsomeare not.Within the category of ...
Felix A. Carroll, 2011
9
The Theory of Error-correcting Codes
Introduction Alternant codes are a large and powerful family of codes obtained by an apparently small modification of the parity check matrix of a BCH code. Recall from Ch. 7 that a BCH code of length n and designed distance 5 over GF(q) ...
Florence Jessie MacWilliams, Neil James Alexander Sloane, 1977
10
Introduction to Global Variational Geometry
Introduction Alternant codes are a large and powerful family of codes obtained by an apparently small modification of the parity check matrix of a BCH code. Recall from Ch. 7 that a BCH code of length n and designed distance 5 over GF(q) ...
Demeter Krupka, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALTERNANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term alternant is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Cinéma, expo, spectacles, livres : la sélection culture du week-end
Sur scène, elle feuillette ce journal, racontant les 176 jours d'adaptation, revenant sur des anecdotes du passé, alternant humour, chagrin et ... «Les Échos, Jun 15»
2
Réussir une coloration tie-dye en cinq étapes faciles
Répétez le processus sur toute la tête, en alternant les couleurs et en combinant différentes teintes. 5. Pour un effet tie-dye réussi, laissez un ... «Le Huffington Post Quebec, Jun 15»
3
Florence K en première à New York (PHOTOS)
Assise derrière son piano à queue, elle a offert une prestation d'une heure alternant le répertoire de son nouvel album anglophone I'm Leaving ... «Le Huffington Post Quebec, Jun 15»
4
Digisaurus - Without Me
Alternant mouvements chaloupés et respirations tempétueuses, Digisaurus offre des boucles orageuses aux accroches de basses et aux ... «Pause Musicale, Jun 15»
5
Elimination Chamber : Le futur c'est Kevin Owens
On retiendra finalement de ce special event une soirée qui aura fait les montagnes russes, alternant l'excellence avec le match entre Owens et ... «VoxCatch, Jun 15»
6
Météo : temps variable jusqu'en début de semaine prochaine
Le temps restera sec mercredi midi, le ciel alternant entre passages nuageux et soleil. Le vent de secteur ouest à sud-ouest soufflera ... «lavenir.net, May 15»
7
Suzuki V-Strom 650 XT
... à base de chemins de terre très roulants, de petits chemins de terre alternant boue et pierre ainsi que quelques passages pseudo-trialisants. «Le Repaire des Motards, May 15»
8
Xavier Dolan, Sophie Marceau, Guillermo del Toro... voici le jury du …
Découverte dans "La Boum" (1980), Sophie Marceau a construit sa carrière en alternant grands succès populaires et films d'auteur. On la voit ... «lalibre.be, Apr 15»
9
Iván Fischer ou... l'amour de l'Homme par la musique
De scènes alternant extraits de concerts ou répétitions, moments de détente et confidences. Un coup de chapeau tout d'abord aux auteurs du ... «Journal Francophone de Budapest, Apr 15»
10
Haroon Mota, le champion musulman de la charité, engagé dans un …
C'est le champion toutes catégories de la charité, alternant avec le même bonheur entre les chaussures de montagne et celles de course à ... «Oumma.com, Apr 15»
REFERENCE
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