English Dictionary

alternately

IPA（発音記号）

[ɔːlˈtɜɹnətlɪ]

副詞

比較不可 カナダ英語 アメリカ英語 禁用 時々

In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order. / (mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.

日本語の意味

交互に、順番に物事が起こるさま（互いに交互・順次に起こる状態） / 数学において、比例関係における前項と後項が交互に比較される場合を指す

The lights flashed alternately to signal the start and end of the race.

そのライトは交互に点滅して、レースの開始と終了を知らせた。

意味（1）

In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

All night Katerina and I watched alternately, though, I shame to say, I slept more than I watched; and, having first ascertained that there was no change, I came directly hither.

意味（2）

(mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.

意味（3）

(chiefly Canada, US, sometimes proscribed) Alternatively.

Downstairs, he was informed. That is, down the escalators, where there is both a women’s room (often with a line) and a men’s room (almost never with a line). Or alternately, he could ask the station master to buzz him into the “family” bathroom. He opted to go downstairs.