alternative meaning
EN
[ˌɒlˈtɜːnətɪv] 
US WAlternative
- Alternative may refer to:
FR alternative 
- NounPLalternativesSUF-ative
- 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.
- A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
- Adjective
- Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
- an alternative proposition
- Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, alternative rock).
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Other.
- alternate; reciprocal.
- Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Multisoliton solutions are presented together with a new discrete form of Lotka-Volterra equation obtained by an alternative bilinearisation..
- Talin showed two isoforms in rohu, where as talin-1 and talin-2 in model vertebrates produces two talins through alternative mRNA splicing [75 ].
- Various classes of noncoding RNAs target each other for posttranscriptional regulation via alternative splicing, polyadenylation, 5′ capping, nontemplated modifications, and RNA editing.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- In future, with further interventions to circumvent the problems we have identified herein, telomerised cells may still be a viable alternative.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of alternative in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "alternative" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.