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单词 intercalation
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intercalationn.

/ɪntəkəˈleɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin intercalātiōn-em, noun of action < intercalāre in intercalate n. Compare French intercalation (15th cent.).
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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > adjustments in calculations
embolisma1387
intercalation1577
embolization1677
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. xiv. ii. 98 Our intercalation for the leape yere is somewhat too much by certeine minuts.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxvi. i. 285 The Romanes..had transferred upon the priests the power and authoritie of Intercalation.
1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. 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.
1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. vi. i. 226 Caesar, by way of securing the intercalation as a matter of precedent, made his initial year, 44 b.c., a leap year.
2. transferred. 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 plural, the thing or matter thus interjected: an interpolation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > action of placing between
interposition1412
object1526
objectionc1550
interplacing1567
interjecture1578
interlarding1581
interjecting1583
chopping1587
interjection1598
interpose1610
interlocation1611
interposal1625
intermission1628
interposure1628
intercalation1649
interposing1657
interpolation1849
sandwiching1877
intrapolation1956
the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent > something interposed
interjection1598
intercalation1649
interposition1650
interpositive1650
interlineary1670
interlocation1834
interpolation1851
interlay1901
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > position or direction of strata > interstratified condition
intercalation1841
interstratification1855
interbedding1879
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > position or direction of strata > interstratified condition > layer of a different kind between strata
intercalation1880
1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations iii. 63 Intercalations of mercy.
a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1673) i. 272 When you come to any imperfection, to leave him, and supply his wants by intercalation of some other Author.
1841 J. Trimmer Pract. Geol. 216 The intercalation of a new system of rocks between the carboniferous and Silurian.
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 256 To say that the intercalation of miracles in the world's history is also according to law.
1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life ix. 174 Successive intercalations indicative of more than one period of glaciation.
1882 F. Darwin in Nature 20 Apr. 581 Increase of length by turgescence and the intercalation of solid matter.
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