alternating light
Americannoun
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Individual layers are typically ten to a few tens of meters thick, marked by alternating light and dark bands of sediment.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
The result is a series of alternating light and dark ridges.
From Scientific American • May 22, 2015
But existing optical systems, instead of producing points, project tiny spots, each of which consists of alternating light and dark concentric circles, or diffraction patterns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their trunks made patterns of alternating light and dark beneath the canopy of branches.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
This human shadow strengthened and faded in the alternating light, until it was defined against his storehouse, his warehouse, his cabins, and the plain, and it seemed also against the wall of dense forest pines.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred
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