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–adjective Archaic.
alternate; following one another.
[Origin: 1635–45; < L altern(us) interchangeable, alternating, equiv. to alter the other (see alter) + -nus adj. suffix]
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Al"tern\, a. [L. alternus, fr. alter another: cf. F. alterne.] Acting by turns; alternate. --Milton.

Altern base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.
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