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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''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''
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Alternative comedy
Alternative comedy is a term coined in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era. The phrase has had different connotations in different contexts: in the UK, it was used to describe ...
, a range of styles used by comedians and writers in the 1980s
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Alternative comics
Alternative comics cover a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to mainstream superhero comics which ...
, a genre of comic strips and books
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Alternative media
Alternative media are media sources that differ from established or dominant types of media (such as mainstream media or mass media) in terms of their content, production, or distribution.Downing, John (2001). ''Radical Media''. Thousand Oaks, ...
, media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication
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Alternative reality
A parallel universe, also known as a parallel dimension, alternate universe, or alternate reality, is a hypothetical self-contained plane of existence, co-existing with one's own. The sum of all potential parallel universes that constitute reali ...
, in fiction
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Alternative title
An alternative title is a media sales device most prominently used in film distribution. Books and films are commonly released under a different title when they are screened or sold in a different country. This can vary from small change to the ...
, the use of a secondary title for a work when it is distributed or sold in other countries
Music
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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
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Randy Scouse Git
"Randy Scouse Git" is a song written by Micky Dolenz in 1967 and recorded by the Monkees. It was the first song written by Dolenz to be commercially released, and it became a number 2 hit in the UK where it was retitled "Alternate Title" after ...
" (released as "Alternate Title" in the UK), by the Monkees, 1967
* "Altern-ate", song by
H-el-ical//, 2020
Genres
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Alternative country
Alternative country, or alternative country rock (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, Americana, or y'allternative), is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and/or country rock that includes acts that differ significantly in style ...
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Alternative dance
Alternative dance (also known as indie dance or underground dance in the U.S.) is a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music. Although largely confined to the British Isles, it has gained American and worldwide expos ...
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Alternative hip hop
Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses a wide range of styles that are not typically identified as mainstream. AllMusic defines it as comprising " hip hop groups that refuse to confo ...
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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 ...
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Alternative R&B
Alternative R&B (also referred to as alt-R&B, indie R&B, hipster R&B, dark R&B, emo R&B and left-field R&B) is a term used by music journalists to describe a stylistic alternative to contemporary R&B that began in the mid 2000s and came to pro ...
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Alternative reggaeton
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commercial ...
, also known as "alternative music" or simply "alternative"
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Indie pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and s ...
, sometimes known as "alternative pop”
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Indie folk
Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music. Indie folk hybridizes the acoustic guitar melodies of traditional folk music with contemporary instrumentation.
The genre has it ...
, sometimes known as "alternative folk"
Culture and society
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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 a ...
, a replacement or backup for a regular or starting team player
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Alternative culture
Alternative culture is a type of culture that exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures. These subcultures may have little or nothing in common besides their relative ...
, a variety of subcultures existing along the fringes of mainstream culture
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Alternative dispute resolution
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), or external dispute resolution (EDR), typically denotes a wide range of dispute resolution processes and techniques that parties can use to settle disputes with the help of a third party. They are used for ...
, processes and techniques outside the traditional mainstream of jurisprudence
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Alternative fashion
Alternative fashion or Alt fashion is fashion that stands apart from mainstream commercial fashion. Alternative fashion includes the fashions of specific subcultures such as emo, scene, goth subculture, hip hop, cyberpunk, kawaii, cottagecor ...
, for example Gothic fashion, Punk fashion, Fetish fashion
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Alternative lifestyle
An alternative lifestyle is a lifestyle perceived to be outside the norm for a given culture. The phrase "alternative lifestyle" is often used pejoratively. Description of a related set of activities as alternative is a defining aspect of certai ...
, a lifestyle that is not within the cultural norm
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Alternative medicine
Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence from clinical trials. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and al ...
, healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine
Education
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Alternative education
Alternative education encompasses many pedagogical approaches differing from mainstream pedagogy. Such alternative learning environments may be found within state, charter, and independent schools as well as home-based learning environments. ...
, non-traditional education
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Alternative school
An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional. Such schools offer a wide range of philosophies and teaching methods; some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientati ...
, a school geared towards students whose needs cannot be met in a traditional school
Mathematics and science
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Alternative algebra In abstract algebra, an alternative algebra is an algebra in which multiplication need not be associative, only alternative. That is, one must have
*x(xy) = (xx)y
*(yx)x = y(xx)
for all ''x'' and ''y'' in the algebra.
Every associative algebra is o ...
, an abstract algebra with alternative multiplication
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Alternativity
In abstract algebra, alternativity is a property of a binary operation. A magma ''G'' is said to be if (xx)y = x(xy) for all x, y \in G and if y(xx) = (yx)x for all x, y \in G. A magma that is both left and right alternative is said to be () ...
, a weaker property than associativity
* Alternate leaves, a classification in botanical
phyllotaxis
In botany, phyllotaxis () or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem. Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature.
Leaf arrangement
The basic arrangements of leaves on a stem are opposite and alterna ...
Politics
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The Alternative (Palestine), a former electoral alliance of several socialist Palestinian groups
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The Alternative (Denmark)
The Alternative ( da, Alternativet) is a green political party in Denmark. The party was publicly launched on 27 November 2013 by former Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk and Josephine Fock; Elbæk had been a parliamentarian for the Social Liberal P ...
, a green political party in Denmark
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Alternativa (Kosovo political party)
The Alternative ( Albanian: ''Alternativa'') is a liberal political party in Kosovo.
History
Ilir Deda was elected MP for Vetëvendosje in the parliamentary election of 2014. However, during the anti-governmental protests in Kosovo in 2015–1 ...
, a liberal political party in Kosovo
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Alternativa (Italian political party)
Alternativa ( en, Alternative, 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 ( en, There is an Alternative). Its ...
, a populist political party in Italy
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Alternativa (North Macedonian political party), an Albanian political party in North Macedonia
Other uses
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Alternative investment, investment other than stocks, bond (finance), money funds, and cash
See also
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Alternate (theatre)
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Alternatives
Founded in 1994, Alternatives, Action and Communication Network for International Development, is a non-governmental, international solidarity organization based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Alternatives works to promote justice and equality a ...
, a Canadian non-governmental organization
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Alternating (disambiguation)
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Alternative press (disambiguation)
Alternative press may refer to:
Individual publications
* ''Alternative Press'' (magazine), an American music magazine
Alternative journalism
* Alternative media
** Alternative media (U.S. political left)
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The Alternate (disambiguation)
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