单词 | intercalation |
释义 | intercalationn. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1577 |
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