Intercalate

Quick meaning: Intercalate is a verb meaning To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.

Meaning

To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.

More Meanings

1. To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose, such as for the Hebrew calendar.
2. (molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.
3. To insert anything somewhere (especially between other things), such as an affix into a word. (Compare interpolate.)
4. A compound formed by foreign atoms or molecules entering between the layers of a crystal lattice, especially that of graphite.
5. (often used attributively) An atom or molecule, or a substance, that enters between the layers of the crystal lattice of another substance, especially that of graphite.

Example Sentences

Sometimes f or s is intercalated to lighten the pronunciation : kommen, Kunft ; können, Kunst ; […]

'[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day. Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere.

The Sages once overheard three shepherds discussing what weather is characteristic of Adar, and if that weather does not occur, it is not really Adar. As a result, the Sages intercalated the year and added Adar II.

... the personal pronouns which form the terminations of the verb, or by an intercalated suffix, the nature and relation of its objects and its subject , and to distinguish whether the object be animate or inanimate, .

Word Forms

• intercalates
• intercalating
• intercalated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include enschedule, calendarise, interdate, intervene, overdate, supercalender.

Related Dictionary Tools