Alternatively, if characters ' attribute ranks are close, the weaker character can try to change the relevant attribute by changing the nature of the conflict.

Alternatively, the rock picker can feel underneath rocks at low tides for abalone.

Alternatively they can be organized by whether the raw stock is of natural, or synthetic origin, or by their starting physical phase.

Alternatively, if the boards are pre-dealt, " curtain cards " may be supplied which have each hand printed on them, so that each player can check at the beginning of the deal that he has the right cards.

Alternatively SCSI Enclosure Services can be used.

Alternatively, she can seek a surgical solution.

Alternatively, there may further be requirements for maximum terms that a government can keep power before holding an election.

Alternatively, rasterization can be done in a more complicated manner by first rendering the vertices of a face and then rendering the pixels of that face as a blending of the vertex colors.

Alternatively, diagnosis and strain identification can be made using polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ).

Alternatively, the business can be sold as a going concern with the net proceeds of the sale distributed to creditors ratably in accordance with statutory priorities.

Alternatively, the coordinates of a point p can also be taken as the ( signed ) distances from p to the three planes defined by the three axes.

Alternatively, if positive pressures are required, standard glassware can not be used, energy must be used for pressurization and there is a higher chance of side reactions occurring in the distillation, such as decomposition, due to the higher temperatures required to effect boiling.

Alternatively, a single hostname may correspond to many IP addresses: this can facilitate fault tolerance and load distribution, and also allows a site to move physical locations seamlessly.

Alternatively, and especially in connection with the relational model of database management, the relation between attributes drawn from a specified set of domains can be seen as being primary.

Alternatively, the method can be used to value the company based on the value of total invested capital.

Alternatively, they can be fitted with tom heads and tuned as shallow concert toms.

Alternatively, two figures are congruent if one can be moved on top of the other so that it matches up with it exactly.

Alternatively, the image can be photographically recorded by exposing a photographic film or plate directly to the electron beam, or a high-resolution phosphor may be coupled by means of a lens optical system or a fibre optic light-guide to the sensor of a CCD ( charge-coupled device ) camera.

Alternatively entropy can be defined from a classical thermodynamics viewpoint, in which the molecular interactions are not considered and instead the system is viewed from perspective of the gross motion of very large masses of molecules and the behavior of individual molecules is averaged and obscured.

Alternatively, for an orientable surface the formula can be given in terms of the genus of a surface, g:

Alternatively, gdbserver can be used to remotely debug the program without needing to change it in any way.

Alternatively, they can be termed when they are designed for combat as opposed to iaitō training swords.

Alternatively, microscopes can be classed on whether they analyse the sample via a scanning point ( confocal optical microscopes, scanning electron microscopes and scanning probe microscopes ) or analyse the sample all at once ( wide field optical microscope and transmission electron microscopes ).

Alternatively, it can be thought of as maximizing the minimum gain ( maximin ).

Alternatively, two-thirds of the population have IQ scores within one SD of the mean, i. e. within the range 85-115.

Alternatively, Jordanes ' conversio may mean that he had become a monk, or a religiosus, or a member of the clergy.

Alternatively, Prakrit can be taken to mean " derived from an original ," which means evolved in natural way.

Alternatively, technological unemployment might refer to the way in which steady increases in labour productivity mean that fewer workers are needed to produce the same level of output every year.

Alternatively, her name may simply mean " old woman "; certainly it bears some similarity to, meaning " grandmother ", and she is often portrayed as being extremely ancient ( cf.

Alternatively, it can also mean butchering the corpse by hand to remove the flesh ( sometimes referred to by the neologism " defleshing ").

Alternatively, with respect to a large region without airfields, e. g. an ocean, it can mean the point before which it is closer to turn around and after which it is closer to continue.

Alternatively, the lyrics could mean, " Lilly is clear this, the day will be ours ".

Alternatively, the name of the town may simply mean " black burn ", or " black stream ".

Alternatively, it could also mean that he may have had a daughter that married the pharaoh Akhenaten, possibly the father of Akhenaten's chief wife Nefertiti.

" Alternatively, the name may mean willow halh, the first element of it being the Old English wilgen ' of willows '.

Alternatively, it could be mean ' wind ' or ' winds ' - from the closest Welsh language translation as gwynt.

Alternatively it could mean something along the lines of " high place beside the water ", as the word burn is a still widely used in Northumbrian and Scots for stream.

Alternatively, it may mean that ʿElyōn, having given the other nations to his sons, now takes Israel for himself under his name of God.

Alternatively, it could just mean that there are some linguistic contexts in which people tend to interpret " if " as a material conditional, and other linguistic contexts in which its most common vernacular meaning is different.

Alternatively, finds of Roman material may mean that social display became more of a matter of personal adornment with imported exotica rather than building an impressive dwelling.

Alternatively, genetic mosaicism could mean that the number of certain varieties of fig in an ecosystem may be far lower than biologists have previously thought, and given populations may not have enough trees to maintain their symbiotic relationship with their pollinating wasps.

Alternatively it can mean a stored line break that is not a paragraph break.

Alternatively they may set the input control to minimum at night instead of the output, which can mean there is no heat at all for the next day.

Alternatively, it is also possible that his name could mean Aa Ni Ka, meaning " respectable brother from Nepal ".

Alternatively, it could mean the well of the plain, as Toberclare is a largely flat, fertile plain.