Alternative or alternate may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
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Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki''
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Alternative comics
Alternative comics or independent comics cover a range of American comic book, American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alterna ...
, or independent comics are an alternative to mainstream superhero comics
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Alternative fashion, fashion that stands apart from mainstream, commercial fashion.
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Alternative manga, manga published outside the more commercial market, or which have different art styles, themes, and narratives to those found in the more popular manga magazines.
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AlterNative'', academic journal
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''The Alternative'' (film), a 1978 Australian television film
* ''The Alternative'', a radio show hosted by
Tony Evans
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''120 Minutes'' (2004 TV program), an alternative rock music video program formerly known as ''The Alternative''
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The American Spectator'', an American magazine formerly known as ''The Alternative: An American Spectator''
Music
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Alternative dance
Alternative dance (also known as indie dance or underground dance in the United States) is a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music. Although largely confined to the British Isles, it has gained worldwide exposure ...
, a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music
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Alternative hip hop, subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses a wide range of styles that are not typically identified as mainstream
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Alternative pop
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s w ...
, pop music with broad commercial appeal that is made by figures outside the mainstream, or which is considered more original, challenging, or eclectic than traditional pop music
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s w ...
, also known as "alternative music" or simply "alternative"
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Alternative metal
Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a genre of heavy metal music that combines heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. Alternative metal bands are often characterized by ...
, genre of heavy metal music that combines heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal
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''Alternative'' (album), a B-sides album by Pet Shop Boys
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''The Alternative'' (album), an album by IAMX
* "Altern-ate", a song by
H-el-ical//, 2020
Sports
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Alternate (sports)
In team sports, substitution (or interchange) is replacing one player with another during a match. Substitute players that are not in the starting lineup (also known as bench players, backups, interchange, or reserves) reside on the bench and are ...
, a replacement or backup for a regular or starting team player
Mathematics and science
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Alternativity, a weaker property than associativity
* Alternate leaves, a classification in botanical
phyllotaxis
In botany, phyllotaxis () or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaf, leaves on a plant stem. Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature.
Leaf arrangement
The basic leaf#Arrangement on the stem, arrangements of leaves ...
Politics
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The Alternative (Denmark), a green political party in Denmark
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The Alternative (France)
The Alternative (French: ''L'Alternative'') was an electoral coalition created the fall of 2013 by Jean-Louis Borloo and François Bayrou. It reunited the two major French centrists political parties: the Union of Democrats and Independents an ...
, electoral coalition
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The Alternative (Palestine)
The Alternative ( ''al-badeel'') or the Alternative List, was an electoral alliance of several socialist Palestinian groups:
* Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (''al-jabhah al-dīmūqrātiyyah li-tahrīr filastīn'')
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, a former electoral alliance of several socialist Palestinian groups
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Alternativa (Kosovo)
The Alternative (Albanian language, Albanian: ''Alternativa'') is a Liberalism, liberal List of political parties in Kosovo, political party in Kosovo.
History
Ilir Deda was elected MP for Vetëvendosje in the 2014 Kosovan parliamentary electio ...
, a liberal political party in Kosovo
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Alternativa (Italian political party)
Alternativa (, A or Alt) is a populist and Eurosceptic political party in Italy. It was established in February 2021 as a parliamentary sub-group of the Mixed Group named L'Alternativa c'è (). Its members are former deputies of the Five S ...
, a populist political party in Italy
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Alternativa (North Macedonia)
Alternative (, AAA; Albanian: Alternativa) is a political party in North Macedonia
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, ...
, a political party in North Macedonia
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Alternative (political bloc)
The Alternative (, ) is a political alliance in Moldova founded in 2025 by incumbent mayor of Chișinău Ion Ceban, 2024 presidential candidate Alexandr Stoianoglo, former Prime Minister Ion Chicu, and former MP Mark Tkachuk. The alliance ...
, in the Republic of Moldova
See also
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Alt-right
The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right) is a Far-right politics, far-right, White nationalism, white nationalist movement. A largely Internet activism, online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in the United States during the late ...
(abbreviated from alternative right) is a far-right, white nationalist movement.
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Alt porn
Alternative porn (also known as alt porn, alternaporn, or simply alt in context), a shortening of " alternative pornography," is a subgenre of pornography that is centered around alternative subcultures, such as goths, emos, scenes, skaters, ...
, a shortening of "alternative pornography," is a subgenre of pornography that is centered around alternative subcultures, such as goths, hipsters, emos, scenes, skaters or ravers, and is often produced by small and independent websites or filmmakers
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Alternate (theatre)
In theatre, an understudy, referred to in opera as cover or covering, is a performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor, actress, or other performer in a play. Should the regular actor or actress be unable to a ...
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Alternative fuel
Alternative fuels, also known as non-conventional and advanced fuels, are fuels derived from sources other than petroleum. Alternative fuels include gaseous fossil fuels like propane, natural gas, methane, and ammonia; biofuels like biodies ...
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Alternative fuel locomotive
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Alternative fuel vehicle
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Alternative housing
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Alternative lifestyle
An alternative lifestyle or unconventional lifestyle is a lifestyle (sociology), lifestyle perceived to be outside the social norm, norm for a given culture. The term ''alternative lifestyle'' is often used pejoratively. Description of a related ...
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Alternative natural materials
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Alternate reality (disambiguation)
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Alternatives, a Canadian non-governmental organization
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Alternating (disambiguation)
Alternating may refer to:
Mathematics
* Alternating algebra, an algebra in which odd-grade elements square to zero
* Alternating form, a function formula in algebra
* Alternating group, the group of even permutations of a finite set
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Alternative culture, a variety of subcultures existing along the fringes of mainstream culture
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Alternative education
Alternative education encompasses educational philosophy differing from mainstream pedagogy and evidence-based education. Such alternative learning environments may be found within state, charter, and independent schools as well as home-based ...
, non-traditional education
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Alternative facts
"Alternative facts" was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a ''Meet the Press'' interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the atten ...
, expression associated with political misinformation coined in 2017
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Alternative media
Alternative media are media sources that differ from established forms of media, such as mainstream media or mass media, in terms of their content, production, or distribution.Downing, John (2001). ''Radical Media''. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publica ...
, media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication
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Alternative music (disambiguation)
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Alternative press (disambiguation)
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The Alternate (disambiguation)
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Alternative science (disambiguation)
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