Alternation
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Alternation may refer to:
- Alternation (card game)Alternation (card game)Alternation is a Patience game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Its tableau is similar to that of another solitaire game, Stonewall.-Rules:...
- Alternation (linguistics)Alternation (linguistics)In linguistics, an alternation is the phenomenon of a phoneme or morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological realization. Each of the various realizations is called an alternant...
, a variation in the phonological form of a morpheme - Diathesis alternationDiathesis alternationIn linguistics the term diathesis alternation or verb alternation refers to the fact that verbs can be used in different subcategorization frames where they slightly change their semantic meaning. It is a hard problem for theoretical linguistics how to encode constraints on the diathesis...
- Alternation (complexity), a resource in computational complexity theory
- R/N alternation, see RhotacismRhotacismRhotacism refers to several phenomena related to the usage of the consonant r :*the excessive or idiosyncratic use of the r;...
- AlterNation, a show on NE1 FM
- Alternation (geometry), a geometric operation for deriving polytopes from other polytopes.