The phrase "alternate role of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a different or secondary function or position that something or someone may take on.
Example: "In this project, we will explore the alternate role of technology in enhancing traditional teaching methods."
Alternatives: "alternative function of" or "secondary role of".
Secondary care users of the ABCD2 score emphasised the original intended use of the ABCD2 score (prognostication) more and discussed a greater number of negative alternate roles of the ABCD2 score (diagnostically confusing, obscuring the history, a barrier to appropriate care) versus primary care users of the ABCD2 score.
Future physiological study of photosynthetic tissues in Cuscuta as well as other parasitic plants, which may have largely if not entirely lost the primary photosynthetic function of their plastid genomes, should lead to greater understanding of possible alternate roles of the plastid genome in parasitic and autotrophic plants alike.
Young peregrine falcons learn to hunt through play, alternating roles of hunter and prey.
The Rhine has been a classic example of the alternating roles of great rivers as arteries of political and cultural unification and as political and cultural boundary lines.
Negative values of U i have the opposite effect (which can lead to alternating roles of who appears to be dominant and subordinate).
On the basis of the ability of M.tb IrtA to export analogous M.smeg siderophores, we speculate its alternate role in efflux of the structurally related drugs, thereby conferring drug resistance to mycobacteria.
Consider alternate roles for unhappy employees.
We also note that the evidence suggesting that S100A7 associated induction in α-secretase mediated "non-amyloidogenic" processing might also be consistent with an alternate biological role of S100A7.
Among them, he played James Tyrone Jr in Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey Into Night and one of the raging brothers (opposite John C Reilly, the two of them alternating roles for added challenge) in Sam Shepard's black comedy True West.
William Gaunt, alternating the role of Sorin with Ian McKellen, superbly suggests that the old man relishes playing the part of a hypochondriac failure.
