"alternação" meaning in Portuguese

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      "name": "lbor"
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        "2": "alternar",
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      "expansion": "By surface analysis, alternar + -ção",
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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin alternātiōnem. By surface analysis, alternar + -ção.",
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    {
      "form": "alternações",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "hyphenation": [
    "al‧ter‧na‧ção"
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "alternation (the process of alternating)"
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        {
          "word": "alternância"
        }
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        "feminine"
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    },
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        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
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  ],
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    {
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "alternation (the process of alternating)"
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