alternation

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Also, recordings of a kind of electrical dialog between fish featured highly-precise turn-taking in which the fish emitted their electrical discharges in strict alternation.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

That alternation between the serious and the absurd was the series’ stock in trade.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Sitting on the chairs and toggling between resilience and collapse, in relay or alternation, they match the force of the electronically layered drums in Mikel Rouse’s prerecorded score.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2023

When I compared each toss outcome with the next, 24 of the 50 comparisons yielded a changed result—just the sort of nearly 50 percent alternation we would expect from coin tossing.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

Because of the length of the lunar day and night Kepler described “the great intemperateness of climate and the most violent alternation of extreme heat and cold on the Moon,” which is entirely correct.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan