alternate vs transpose

alternate

verb
  • To vary by turns. 

  • To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly. 

  • To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation. 

  • To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with. 

adj
  • Other; alternative. 

  • Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence 

  • Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second. 

  • Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly) 

noun
  • A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty. 

  • A replacement of equal or greater value or function. 

  • A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means. 

  • That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. 

  • Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns. 

transpose

verb
  • To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order. 

  • To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key. 

  • To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators. 

  • To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures. 

  • To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange. 

  • To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term. 

noun
  • The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators. 

  • The resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix. 

adj
  • A matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix. 

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