different between alternation vs mordent

English

Etymology

Latin alternatio; compare French alternation.Morphologically alternate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l.t?(?).?ne?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??l.t?.?ne?.??n/, /??l.t?.?ne?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

alternation (countable and uncountable, plural alternations)

1. The reciprocal succession of (normally two) things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence

2. (religion) The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
   • 1795, William Mason, Essays, Historical and Critical, on English Church Music

     There are Anthems to be found amongst them , where every syllable has its just length ; each part of a sentence its proper pause : where the words are not confused by perplexing alternations, or rendered tedious by unnecessary repetitions

3. (linguistics) Ablaut.
4. (linguistics) A pattern by which more than one construct is possible, as with "Alice cooked Bob dinner" and "Alice cooked dinner for Bob".

5. (logic) The "inclusive or" truth function.
6. (mathematics) A sequence that alternates between positive and negative values; sometimes incorrectly used to mean permutation.
7. (computing) A construct in a regular expression that can match any of several specified subexpressions.
8. (geometry) A type of partial truncation of a polygon, polyhedron or tiling in which alternate vertices are removed.
   • 1932, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, The densities of the regular polytopes, part 2, reprinted in 1995, F. Arthur Sherk, Peter Mcmullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivi? Weiss (editors), Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H. S. M. Coxeter, page 54,

     This case suggests that the alternation of a polyhedron should be bounded by actual vertex figures and alternated faces. The case of the cube is in agreement with this notion, since the alternated square is nothing.

Derived terms

• alternation of generations

Translations

English

Etymology

Italian mordente. Doublet of mordant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??(?)d?nt/
• Homophone: mordant

Noun

mordent (plural mordents)

1. (music) An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.

Derived terms

• inverted mordent
• lower mordent
• upper mordent

Translations

See also

• mordant
• pralltriller

French

Verb

mordent

1. third-person plural present indicative of mordre
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of mordre

Anagrams

• dorment

Latin

Verb

mordent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of morde?