Meanings
- not comparableNot alternate.
All small plans were assumed to be of the nonalternate formula type.
1980, Private Pension Policy Simulations: Final Report, page 782 more examples
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.
1939, Kenneth Brooks Haas, Cooperative Part-time Retail Training Programs, page 46The 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.
2008, Mihkel Koel, Ionic Liquids in Chemical Analysis, page 101
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