ALTernate key

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ALT
Pronunciation
/ˈɔltərˌneɪt ki/
Category
Computing
Related Field
Software

Examples in Context

  1. A container can either support strings as its keys, like the root object itself, or can use integers as an alternate key system instead.
  2. The retrieval of a data record in an indexed file by the primary ( or optionally, alternate ) key within the data record.
  3. Stability of consequent bedding rock slope is evaluated by the stage of displacement alternate, which is got by analyzing the displacement alternate process of key monitoring point and spatial displacement distribution status and suggestion value of safety factors when whole displacements are consistency.
  4. Th e concentration of alternate stress is a key factor of fatigue destruction.
  5. With the development of soybean production, the yield of soybean reduced seriously by the problem of continuous cropping and alternate cropping was becoming the key to resist the soybean production.

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