intercalate
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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
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
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
"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
"Other computational models in the literature lack a physical basis or validation against unknown intercalated compounds."
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
Cells are attached to one another at intercalated disks.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
How long ago this occurred we do not know, but one of the last intercalated mild periods of the glacial epoch itself seems to offer all the necessary conditions.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
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
The old practice of intercalating a month was of course dropped.
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
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
