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.
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)
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.
A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
The chief administrator of a school.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
The primary participant in a crime.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
A security principal.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A partner or owner of a business.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.