English

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ alternate.

Adjective

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nonalternate (not comparable)

  1. Not alternate.
    • 1939, Kenneth Brooks Haas, Cooperative Part-time Retail Training Programs, page 46:
      Under the nonalternate cooperative plan only one pupil is assigned to each position and there is therefore no alternating of groups of pupils between school and store.
    • 1980, Private Pension Policy Simulations: Final Report, page 78:
      All small plans were assumed to be of the nonalternate formula type.
    • 2008, Mihkel Koel, Ionic Liquids in Chemical Analysis, page 101:
      The researchers investigated the steady-state emission behavior of the two different PAH types (alternate versus nonalternate) in the presence of the fluorescence quencher nitromethane dissolved in either acetonitrile, [C4C1Im][PF6], or 90 st% glycerol in water.