intercalation

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Ashur points to the late addition of this intercalated month, and makes it probable also that the intercalation is the work of astronomers standing under Assyrian authority.

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  1. In chronology, an official insertion of additional time, as a day or a month, in the regular reckoning of the calendar, to make the year of the right length. See intercalary, 1. The number of days required to bring the lunar year into correspondence with the solar had been supplied by irregular intercalations at the direction of the Sacred College. Froude, Cæsar, p. 472.
  2. Hence The insertion of anything between other things; irregular interposition or interjection, as, in geology, the intrusion of layers or beds between the regular rocks of a series. Intercalations of fresh-water species in some localities. Mantell.
  3. Effective scale of intercalations in mathematics See effective.

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  • • White et al demonstrate how we can understand social structure as the intercalation of roles, without the a priori logical categories. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • May additional na typewritten intercalation o pagdadagdag ng buwan diumano sa huling bahagi ng kontrata para palabasin na si Gabby ay humarap sa notary public sa Pilipinas at nag-attest sa nasabing kontrata. —  Blogged!
  • Thus, ParaHox clustering might have arisen secondarily in the chordates by intercalation of XLOX between GSX and CDX. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • They made use of no intercalation, and by losing a fourth of a day every year, the commencement of the year went back one day in every period of four years, and consequently made a revolution of the seasons in 1461 years. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • According to the Gregorian rule of intercalation, therefore, every year of which the number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the centurial years, which are only leap years when divisible by four after omitting the two ciphers. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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  1. = French intercalation = Spanish intercalacion = Portuguese intercalação = Italian intercalazione, from Latin intercalatio(n-), from intercalare, intercalate: see intercalate.
 

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