Definition of alternative

Option that lets you choose among several things

When one speaks of alternative it is referring to the situation of eligible or to choose between two different things or two possibilities of action.
The alternative is basically the existing choice between two or more issues and on which you can choose, opt for one or another, according to personal belief, or the Council of someone, such or which will be the best when it comes to accomplishing a goal or develop a task.
The alternatives can be achieved as possibilities that are presented to us and which are there ready to be chosen before an election. If we are going to a car dealer to buy a car and model offers us that we want to acquire in five different colors, we have five choices of that car and we can lean that like most.
Usually, when an alternative is expressed the conjunction is used or which serves as a nexus connector between the two issues or possibilities.
In everyday life human beings we are subject to different alternatives Yes or Yes we will have to choose one. Work full time or study, remain unmarried or married, have a child or have none, among the most common. Meanwhile, what is also happening with recurrence is under certain circumstances say that there is a possible alternative, i.e., the events occur so closed that it is impossible to find another possibility and there is only a single path to follow. Death or events that are beyond the control of any person, such as an accident, a natural disaster, are situations that do not present a possible alternative.

Is done or happens by turns

Another use of the word is to refer to what is done, said or happens by turns or in successive manner. Physicians will attend to an alternative order.

Other uses

On the other hand, that able to toggle with similar or equal function is called alternative, alternative sources of energy, for example.
At the behest of logic and mathematics, an alternative will be that element of a logical disjunction.
In (relative to practice with the Bulls) bullfighting is called alternative to the ceremony through which acquired the category of Bullfighter.
In different contexts will it be called alternative or alternative to those resulting in relation to other less common or traditional.

Use in law

In the field of law also can find us with a reference to the concept through what is known as obligations with alternative benefits object. It's those obligations which authorize the debtor, the creditor or a third party to choose between two or more objects in action when it comes to cancel an obligation. With a specific example we will see clearer this concept of law. Next Tuesday he paid you the bike or the replacement you with a like.

Do not leave me alternative

We should also highlight that the alternative word is often used in the phrase: "do not leave me alternative", which is used frequently in our language when we mean someone who before an attitude or behavior that is developing does not leave us more room to act in such a way. I.e., if someone does not collaborate in a group, who runs it, you don't have alternative that separate it from the group that eventually does not end by harming it.