Hypertext Webster Gateway: "alternation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Permutation \Per`mu*ta"tion\, n. [L. permutatio: cf. F.
permutation. See {Permute}.]
1. The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another;
mutual transference; interchange.
The violent convulsions and permutations that have
been made in property. --Burke.
2. (Math.)
(a) The arrangement of any determinate number of things,
as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible
orders, one after the other; -- called also
{alternation}. Cf. {Combination}, n., 4.
(b) Any one of such possible arrangements.
3. (Law) Barter; exchange.
{Permutation lock}, a lock in which the parts can be
transposed or shifted, so as to require different
arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of
unlocking.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Alternation \Al`ter*na"tion\, n. [L. alternatio: cf. F.
alternation.]
1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the
act of following and being followed by turns; alternate
succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the
alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and
winter, hope and fear.
2. (Math.) Permutation.
3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with
the minister. --Mason.
{Alternation of generation}. See under {Generation}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
alternation
n 1: being regularly exchangeable
2: successive change from one thing or state to another and
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