- Look up
alternating in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Alternating may
refer to:
Alternating algebra, an
algebra in
which odd-grade
elements square to...
- used to mean
simply alternating and direct, respectively, as when they
modify current or voltage. The
usual waveform of
alternating current in most electric...
- "
alternating caps" as "
aLtErNaTiNg CaPs".
According to the
Jargon File, the
origin and
significance of the
practice is obscure. The term "
alternating case"...
- an
alternating group is the
group of even
permutations of a
finite set. The
alternating group on a set of n
elements is
called the
alternating group...
- series, an
alternating series is a
convergent series if and only if the
sequence of
partial sums of the
series converges to a limit. The
alternating series...
-
Different authors use the term
alternating permutation slightly differently: some
require that the
second entry in an
alternating permutation should be larger...
-
Alternate history (also
referred to as
alternative history, allohistory, althist, or
simply AH) is a
subgenre of
speculative fiction in
which one or more...
- up
alternate universe,
alternate universes,
parallel universe,
parallel universes, or
parallel world in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Alternate reality...
- from
fertilized eggs are diploid. Life
cycles of
plants and
algae with
alternating haploid and
diploid multicellular stages are
referred to as diplohaplontic...
- In mathematics, an
alternating factorial is the
absolute value of the
alternating sum of the
first n
factorials of
positive integers. This is the same...
