What is the meaning of alternating?

Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions.
- synonyms: alternate, jump
Exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions.
- synonyms: alternate
Be an understudy or alternate for a role.
- synonyms: understudy, alternate
Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action.
- synonyms: interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip, flip-flop
Do something in turns.
- usage: "We take turns on the night shift"
- synonyms: alternate, take turns

Of a current. ( reversing direction)
- usage: "alternating current"
Occurring by turns; first one and then the other.
- usage: "alternating feelings of love and hate"
- synonyms: alternate

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