alternative version
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandversion
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alternative
adjective
uk/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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version
noun[C]
uk/ˈvɜː.ʃən/uk/ˈvɜː.ʒən/us/ˈvɝː.ʒən/
a particular form of something that is slightly different from other forms of the ...
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(Definition ofalternativeandversionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theiralternativeversionof the colonial past recast the role of colonizers and colonized.
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Thisalternativeversionis found through close examination of the story settings rather than the narrative events and climax.
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Analternativeversionof the additive model is a cumulative effects model proposing interactive effects, that is, the effects of later experiences depend on the history of early risks.
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It may be added that analternativeversionof the dependent variable, which used the numbers of illegitimate births rather than the illegitimacy ratios, gave essentially the same results.
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Anotheralternativeversionof the protomap account is that the cortex sends connections to specific regions of thalamus that then guide the afferents from the thalamus.
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Analternativeversionof our model was estimated with a measure of state initiative use limited to 1980-92, rather than frequency of use since adoption.
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Anotheralternativeversionof omnipotence would hold that the most powerful being that exists is by definition maximally powerful.
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Secondly, it calls analternativeversionof the metainterpreter (idemo1) to resolve the non-ground version of a query with the ground representation of a given program.
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Thealternativeversionframed the cue as a potential loss: 'states with small populations could have less influence'.
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Instead, described below is thealternativeversionthat is slightly modified for an incremental text data input.
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That suggests that, where the institutional variables can come in, they are providing analternativeversionof our model-substituting for the one we analyze here.
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Analternativeversionof the numerical scheme was then derived which enabled us to compute accurate solutions with waves.
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In the firstalternativeversionconsidered, the borrowing-constraint parameter is 0.2 instead of 1.0, which means that a much larger fraction of agents is at the borrowing constraint.
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Here is a more exotic example, which we will use later on as a counterexample to analternativeversionof our main theorem.
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There are many snags surrounding everyalternativeversion.
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Be that as it may, we have now come back with analternativeversion.
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I do not believe that either this scheme or anyalternativeversionof it will be half as popular in the country as many speakers would have us believe.
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That is why we obviously cannot give our backing to the compromise resolution which has been tabled today, and that is why we have submitted analternativeversion.
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Ever since then sums of money have been promised, or made available—or have not been made available—for the future development of this scheme, or analternativeversion.
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Analternativeversionexists, which can be operated from ground.
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