Alternately: Definition and part of speech

Alternately

  1. adv. By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
  2. adv. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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