alternation

Part of speech: noun

Occurrence in turn; permutation.

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Usage examples "alternation":

  1. Many minds surely are better fitted for alternation in their activities, but many others, and they certainly are not the worst, are naturally much better adapted to a regular repetition. - "Psychology and Social Sanity", Hugo Münsterberg.
  2. We observed over the greater part of the history of American labor an alternation of two planes of thought and action, an upper and a lower. - "A History of Trade Unionism in the United States", Selig Perlman.
  3. But in Virginia it was grown without interruption or alternation, and the plantations rapidly deteriorated in fertility. - "Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce", E. R. Billings.