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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 prevent this it was customary at regular intervals to intercalate days or months.

From History of Astronomy by George Forbes

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

So in music it rejects a wholly perfect harmony, and for this reason musicians deliberately intercalate discordant sounds—what are technically called dissonances.

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by J. V. (James Vincent) Cunningham

The viewer can even intercalate any person in the cast, even himself or herself, and deliver a character's lines.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

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

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024

"Other computational models in the literature lack a physical basis or validation against unknown intercalated compounds."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024

It has one nucleus per cell, is branched, and is distinguished by the presence of intercalated disks.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

They considered those four years as intercalated; therefore believed them to be unfortunate, and called them u yail Jaab, as they did the five supplementary days of the year, to which they likened them.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

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 Vicar, dishevelled and desperate, intercalating spasmodic remorse and apprehension with broken explanations of the Theory of Etiquette.

From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

It has always sought to bring the divine into human life by intercalating acts of God among facts of nature.

From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

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

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart


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