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intercalate

[in-tur-kuh-layt] / ɪnˈtɜr kəˌleɪt /










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“The messenger RNA from the vaccine does not form a triple helix, and it certainly doesn’t intercalate with the DNA to form a triple helix in any way,” Kuritzkes said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

To rectify this discrepancy we must intercalate 10 minutes by stopping the clock until it is 6 by the regulator.

From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer

In this case, the palaeontologist is called upon suddenly to intercalate about 800 species of Mollusca and Radiata, between the fauna of the Lower Lias and that of the Middle Trias.

From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell

As this lunar year, like that of the Greeks, was shorter than the solar year, it had been necessary to intercalate an additional month, of varying length, in every alternate year.

From Early European History by Hutton Webster

No, my dear cousin, it was in bad taste to say the least of it, and it was equally impolitic to intercalate such a demonstration into the usual and appropriate exercises of the week.

From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese) Morse

Therefore, much lab work has been needed to devise new intercalated materials for imparting next-generation device functionalities.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024

This work is an important step forward in minimizing the laborious lab work that's typically required to prepare intercalated materials.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024

"We are the first to develop accurate predictive tools for host-guest intercalation energies, and the stability of intercalated compounds," explains Naoto Kawaguchi, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024

With age, fluid decreases in the fibrous cartilage disks intercalated between the vertebrae in the spine.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

In parts of western Russia Old Red Sandstone fossils are found in beds intercalated with others containing marine fauna of the Devonian facies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

When they link up, they form intercalating discs that allow the cells to communicate with each other and begin contracting in synchrony.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The old practice of intercalating a month was of course dropped.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

Thus, after intercalating in year one, they intercalated again in year four, instead of in year five.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart

Hence it may be seen that by intercalating a month every three years the new moons are restored, very nearly, to the place they occupied three years before.

From Our Calendar by George Nichols Packer




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