alternating
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]alternating
- present participle and gerund of alternate
Adjective
[edit]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
[edit]Translations
[edit]such that it alternates
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math, knot theory
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math, series theory
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math, multilinear algebra
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Alternating multilinear map on Wikipedia.Wikipedia