The phrase "alternative description of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to provide a different way of explaining or characterizing something.
Example: "The alternative description of the phenomenon highlights its impact on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "different explanation of" or "substitute characterization of".
He's a no-nonsense sort of a guy... ...... "Cheerful" someone suggested, tongue-in-cheek, as an alternative description of the earnest figure of the former British head coach.
An alternative description of the quantum state can be given in terms of the quantum numbers n, l, j, and mj.
An alternative description of the power transmission from the source to the receiver is presented in the case of one component of motion and one contact point.
An alternative description of this enhancement in terms of a hot electron temperature, both under ac and dc conditions, is also given.
For the derivation of the proposed CCA variants, we adopt an alternative description of CCA which is based on the orthogonal projectors onto the space spanned by the two sets of multidimensional variables [13].
Room electromagnetics theory is interesting, as it does not require complete knowledge of the propagation environment, and it offers an alternative description of diffuse scattering in a room using only simple parameters.
But, this time, the self-deception had been profound enough for North Korea to invite a horde of foreign journalists to witness the launch, and that group would be stubbornly resistant to alternative descriptions of the event.
So he added: "To preclude suggestions that the president's model American family has the wife at home, we recommend that this example include alternative descriptions of the wife.
In his opinion, linguistics should set itself the more modest and more realistic goal of formulating criteria for evaluating alternative descriptions of a language without regard to the question of how these descriptions had been arrived at.
