alternately

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English alternate Middle English -ly English -ly English alternately From alternate + -ly.

1. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

   “Driving downtown is restricted to bikes with odd and even license plate numbers alternately by day of the month.”

   “All night Katerina and I watched alternately, though, I shame to say, I slept more than I watched; and, having first ascertained that there was no change, I came directly hither.”

2. By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
3. Alternatively.

   “Downstairs, he was informed. That is, down the escalators, where there is both a women’s room (often with a line) and a men’s room (almost never with a line). Or alternately, he could ask the station master to buzz him into the “family” bathroom. He opted to go downstairs.”

   “Westerners have never quite understood the reverence in Japan for fugu, alternately known in English as puffer fish, globefish or blowfish, of the family Tetraodontidae.”