alternately

alternate +‎ -ly

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ɔːlˈtɜɹnətlɪ]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔl.tɚ.nət.li/

alternately (not comparable)

1. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
   • 1970, Michael Palin as Customer, “The Butcher Who is Alternately Rude and Polite”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 2, episode 5:

     Well, I can't help noticing that you insult me and then you're polite to me alternately.

2. (mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
3. (chiefly Canada, US, sometimes proscribed) Alternatively.
   • 2008 July 18, Jennifer 8. Lee, “A ‘Women Only’ Restroom Renovation Tips the Balance at Grand Central”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

• “alternately” (US) / “alternately” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.