English-Russian translations for alternative

• альтернати́ва
• альтернати́вный
• альтернатива
• альтернативный
• выбор

Definition of alternative

• Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities. cf. OED: "Stating or offering the one or the other of two things of which either may be taken." cf. also in OED: "Of two things: Such that one or the other may be chosen, the choice of either involving the rejection of the other. " --
• Other; different from something else. OED: "ellipt. The other , which may be chosen instead." --
• Alternate, reciprocal. cf. OED: "Characterized by alternation; alternate." --
• A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
• One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
• The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.

Examples

• an alternative proposition
• alternative conjunctions like or

Related words

• alternatively
• alternativeness
• alternativity
• alternativism
• alternativeless
• alternative medicine
• alternative hypothesis
• alternative algebra
• alternative dispute resolution