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Meaning of intercalated

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

intercalated

verb

Definitions

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

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

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

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

adjective

Definitions

  1. Interleaved, formed in distinctly alternating layers.