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Altazimuths
- noun - an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation
Alterations
- noun - Amended
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago"
- the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion"
Altercating
- verb - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
Altercation
- noun - An argument or disagreement.
- noisy quarrel
Altercative
- - Characterized by wrangling; scolding.
Alternately
- adverb - in an alternating sequence or position; "They were deglycerolized by alternately centrifuging and mixing"; "he planted fir and pine trees alternately"
Alternating
- verb - (of a current) reversing direction; "alternating current"
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift"
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate"
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
Alternation
- noun - successive change from one thing or state to another and back again; "a trill is a rapid alternation between the two notes"
Alternative
- adjective - necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "alternative possibilities were neutrality or war"
- one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"
- pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"
- serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan"
Alternators
- noun - an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles)