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intercalation|ɪntəkəˈleɪʃən|
[ad. L. intercalātiōn-em, n. of action f. intercalāre in intercalate. Cf. F. intercalation (15th c.).]
1. The insertion of an additional day, days, or month into the ordinary or normal year; the result of this, an intercalated day or space of time.
1577Harrison England iii. xiv. (1878) ii. 98 Our intercalation for the leape yere is somewhat too much by certeine minuts. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxvi. i. 285 The Romanes..had transferred upon the priests the power and authoritie of Intercalation. 1764Harmer Observ. ix. 28 The middle of April falls almost perpetually with the Jewish month Abib or Nisan, even without those extraordinary Intercalations the Dr. speaks of. 1876G. F. Chambers Astron. 440 Caesar, by way of securing the intercalation as a matter of precedent, made his initial year, 45 b.c., a leap year.
2. transf. The insertion of any addition between the members of an existing or recognized series; interposition or interjection (of something additional or foreign); the occurrence of a layer or bed of a different kind between the regular strata of a series; also with an and pl., the thing or matter thus interjected: an interpolation.
1648Hammond Serm. iii. Wks. 1684 IV. 484 Intercalations of mercy. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 346 When you come to any imperfection to leave him and supply his wants by intercalation of some other author. 1841J. Trimmer Pract. Geol. 216 The intercalation of a new system of rocks between the carboniferous and Silurian. 1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith (1853) 256 To say that the intercalation of miracles in the world's history is also according to law. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life ix. 174 Successive intercalations indicative of more than one period of glaciation. 1882F. Darwin in Nature 20 Apr. 581 Increase of length by turgescence and the intercalation of solid matter. |