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
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
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
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
As often as he meets with new groups, he must ascertain by superposition their age relatively to those first examined, and thus learn how to intercalate them in a tabular arrangement of the whole.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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
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
An intercalated disc allows the cardiac muscle cells to contract in a wave-like pattern so that the heart can work as a pump.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Incidental to the heroic dramas which the puppets play are interludes of ballet-dancing like those which are intercalated, more or less adroitly, into the grand opera performed by full-grown men and women.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
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
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
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
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
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