intercalate
pronunciation
How to pronounce intercalate in British English:
UK [ɪn'tɜ:kəleɪt]
How to pronounce intercalate in American English:
US [ɪn'tɜkəˌleɪt]
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- Verb:
- insert (days) in a calendar
Word Origin
- intercalate (v.)
- "to insert a day into the calendar," 1610s, from Latin intercalatus, past participle of intercalare "to proclaim the insertion of an intercalary day," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + calare (see calendar). Related: Intercalated; intercalating.
Example
- 1. The exchangeable characteristic of cation is the driving force that makes the organic cation intercalate the interlayers .
- 2. Use administrators password can set up all user , intercalate the initialize password for common user .
- 3. Intercalate at the door of hydrant sign in the room and sign with name and how to use .
- 4. Beginning in 1991 , my colleagues and I had the privilege of working with structural biologists and medicinal chemists to test small chemicals that might intercalate into the catalytic site of the hiv protease , an enzyme essential for the production of infectious progeny virus .