Intercalate Definition

ĭn-tûrkə-lāt
intercalated, intercalates, intercalating
verb
To insert (an intercalary day, month, etc.)
Webster's New World
To interpolate or insert.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary
(molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Intercalate

  • Latin intercalāre intercalāt- inter- inter- calāre to proclaim kelə-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowed from Latin intercalātus, perfect passive participle of intercalō.

    From Wiktionary

Intercalate Sentence Examples

  • It Has Been Stated By Scaliger, Weidler, Montucla, And Others, That The Modern Persians Actually Follow This Method, And Intercalate Eight Days In Thirty Three Years.

  • The era began on the 11th of July 552, and their year is vague, that is to say, it does not intercalate a day in February every fourth year, like the Julian calendar.

  • Not Even Appear That The Length Of The Intercalary Month Was Regulated By Any Certain Principle, For A Discretionary Power Was Left With The Pontiffs, To Whom The Care Of The Calendar Was Committed, To Intercalate More Or Fewer Days According As The Year Was Found To Differ More Or Less From The Celestial Motions.

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Words Starting With

IININT

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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intercalate

Words Starting With I and Ending With E

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