intercalated

verb

  1. 1

    To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.

  2. 2

    To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.

  3. 3

    To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.

  4. 4

    To insert anything somewhere (especially between other things), such as an affix into a word. (Compare interpolate.)

adjective

  1. 1

    Interleaved, formed in distinctly alternating layers.

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