alternately

1. (mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.not-comparable

2. (chiefly Canada, US, sometimes proscribed) Alternatively.Examples: "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."; "Westerners have never quite understood the reverence in Japan for fugu, alternately known in English as puffer fish, globefish or blowfish, of the family Tetraodontidae."CanadaUSnot-comparableproscribedsometimes