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Alternatively   /ɔltˈərnətɪvli/   Listen
Alternatively

adverb
1.
In place of, or as an alternative to.  Synonyms: instead, or else.  "Alternatively we could buy a used car"






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"Alternatively" Quotes from Famous Books



... teaching be gratuitous, but in order to provide for the satisfaction of local requirements a Third Grade School should be established in Settle either as a separate school or as an upper branch of the National School or alternatively they should annex to Giggleswick School a Junior Department with a lower fee and a limitation of age. Further, in consequence of the twelfth clause of the Endowed Schools Act, some provision was to be made out of the Giggleswick Endowments for ...
— A History of Giggleswick School - From its Foundation 1499 to 1912 • Edward Allen Bell

... allowance for them. The first is that not only must calcium carbide and liquid water be kept out of premature contact, but that moisture, or vapour of water, must not be allowed to reach the carbide; or alternatively, that if water vapour reaches the carbide too soon, the undesired reaction shall not determine overheating, and the liberated gas be not wasted or permitted to become a source of danger. The second difficulty encountered by the designer ...
— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield



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