Intercalating

Word INTERCALATING
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Definitions and meanings of "Intercalating"

What do we mean by intercalating?

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

To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.

To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.

To insert anything somewhere (especially between other things), such as an affix into a word. (Compare interpolate.)

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The word "intercalating" in example sentences

He had a clear vision of the constant movement of molecules in the living tissue, combining and recombining, of the organism taking in and intercalating molecules from outside from the food and rejecting molecules in the excretions, ❋ Unknown (N/A)

This is how this system arrived at an agreement between the solar and the lunar periods: 8 solar years containing 2922 days, while 8 lunar years only contain 2832 days, there was a difference of 90 days, for which Cleostratus compensated by intercalating 3 months of 30 days each, which were placed after the third, fifth and eighth year of the cycle. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)

The regulations of Caesar were not at first sufficiently understood; and the pontiffs, by intercalating every third year instead of every fourth, at the end of thirty-six years had intercalated twelve times, instead of nine. ❋ Various (N/A)

We perceive only their relation in time and space, and it is our mind which raises a succession to the height of a causal connection, by intercalating between cause and effect something of what we ourselves feel when we voluntarily order the execution of a movement. ❋ Alfred Binet (1884)

So accustomed were they to this method of notation that the priests who had the control of the calendar, upset Julius Caesar's plan for intercalating a day once in ❋ George Frisbie Hoar (1865)

I have interrupted what I was about to say by intercalating this paragraph. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

My experience may be worth something to a modest young writer, and so I have interrupted what I was about to say by intercalating this paragraph. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

The old practice of intercalating a month was of course dropped. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

Thus, after intercalating in year one, they intercalated again in year four, instead of in year five. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

The peer-reviewed paper describes the manner in which Curaxins act by intercalating in the minor groove of DNA, resulting in FACT trapping chromatin, thus making the cell deficient in this factor.

It is true, the Arabs, who imitated the Jews in their manner of computing by lunar years, had also learned their method of reducing them to solar years, by intercalating a month sometimes in the third, and sometimes in the second year; 8 by which means they fixed the pilgrimage of ❋ George Sale (1716)

If not for these adjustments (e.g. intercalating a thirteenth month on seven occasions during a nineteen year cycle) the holiday would drift backwards by one and a half weeks each year, as is the case with the Muslim Ramadan, since the lunar year lasts only 354 days.

Stalling of Pol II, caused by DNA damage, a DNA intercalating agent (actinomycin D) or microinjection of anti-Pol II antibodies in the nuclei, leads to p53 induction in a manner that depends on ATR and the single stranded DNA binding protein RPA ❋ Xuefeng Chen Et Al. (2009)

Using intercalating convalescence times, we minimized the risk of confounding side effects during behavioral testing. ❋ Alexander Garthe Et Al. (2009)

Zwelling LA, Michaels S, Erickson LC, Ungerleider RS, Nichols M, et al. (1981) Protein-associated deoxyribonucleic acid strand breaks in L1210 cells treated with the deoxyribonucleic acid intercalating agents 4′ - (9-acridinylamino) methanesulfon-m-anisidide and adriamycin. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Before their dominions had reached any wide extent, the Romans were for a long time ignorant of this fact, and having been for many years involved in obscure difficulties, they were in deeper darkness and error than ever, when they gave the priests the power of intercalating, which they, in profligate subservience to the interests of the farmers of the revenue, or people engaged in lawsuits, effected by making additions or subtractions at their own pleasure. ❋ Ammianus Marcellinus (1851)

DNA self assembly assembling fiber optic nano conduit light photon emit emitter genetic RNA Chalmers University Technology algae photonic wire YO chromophore intercalating nano nanometer NASA snaps photo of remote planet 25 light years away using visible light spectrum, a first University embarks on carbon nanotube data storage project, promises DRAM-like non-volatile memory World's largest, purest graphene sheets produced with 1000x better electrical properties Tiny alternator created, may someday generate power via blood flow Fungus discovered that produces components of rocket and diesel fuels Switching from higher to lower energy light bulbs may increase Mercury emissions ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Four-and-twenty of the school Rabbi, intercalating the year at ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

In this way the date of Easter as kept at Alexandria and Antioch did not always agree; for the Jews, upon whom Antioch depended, adopted very arbitrary methods of intercalating embolismic months (see ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

When "the ecliptic was marked off into the twelve regions" and the signs of the Zodiac were designated, "the year of three hundred sixty-five and one-fourth days was known", says Goodspeed, "though the common year was reckoned according to twelve months of thirty days each [351], and equated with the solar year by intercalating a month at the proper times .... ❋ Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1904)

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