Webster's English Dictionary

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alternation

al.ter.na.tion \.o.l-t*r-'na--sh*n, .al-\ n 1a: the act or process of 
   alternating or causing to alternate  1b: alternating occurrence : 
   SUCCESSION  2: DISJUNCTION  3: the occurrence of different allomorphs or 
   allophones