alternating

== English == === Verb === alternating present participle and gerund of alternate === Adjective === alternating (not comparable) That alternates. (mathematics, of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot. (mathematics, of a series) Having terms that alternate between positive and negative. (mathematics, of a multilinear mapping with all arguments belonging to the same space) Whose value is zero when any two adjacent arguments are equal. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Derived terms === alternating current === Further reading === Alternating multilinear map on Wikipedia.Wikipedia