Usually means: Switching repeatedly between two states.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word alternating:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. alternating: Merriam-Webster
  2. alternating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. alternating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Alternating, alternating: Wordnik
  5. alternating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. alternating: Wiktionary
  7. Alternating, alternating: Dictionary.com
  8. alternating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Alternating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Alternating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. alternating: Rhymezone
  12. Alternating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. alternating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. alternating: FreeDictionary.org
  15. alternating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. alternating: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. alternating: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternating: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternating: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternating, alternating: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See alternate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (alternating)

adjective:  That alternates.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal.

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