Usually means: Switching between two states regularly.
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  1. alternation: Merriam-Webster
  2. alternation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alternation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alternation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alternation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alternation, alternation: Wordnik
  7. alternation: Wiktionary
  8. alternation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. alternation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Alternation, alternation: Dictionary.com
  11. Alternation (complexity), Alternation (formal language theory), Alternation (geometry), Alternation (linguistics), Alternation (string expansion), Alternation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Alternation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. alternation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. alternation: Rhymezone
  15. Alternation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. alternation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. alternation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. alternation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. alternation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. alternation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  21. alternation: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternation: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alternation: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. alternation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. alternation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alternation: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alternation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alternation)

noun:  The reciprocal succession of (normally two) things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence
noun:  (religion) The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
noun:  (phonology) Ablaut.
noun:  (linguistics) A pattern by which more than one construct is possible, as with "Alice cooked Bob dinner" and "Alice cooked dinner for Bob".
noun:  (logic) The "inclusive or" truth function.
noun:  (mathematics) A sequence that alternates between positive and negative values.
noun:  (mathematics, proscribed) A permutation.
noun:  (computing) A construct in a regular expression that can match any of several specified subexpressions.
noun:  (geometry) A type of partial truncation of a polygon, polyhedron or tiling in which alternate vertices are removed.

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