English Dictionary

intercalate

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪnˈtɜː.kəl.eɪt/

動詞

To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena. / To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.

日本語の意味

自然現象との同期を保つため、うるう日（余分な日）を暦に挿入すること / 自然現象との同期を保つため、余分な月を暦に挿入すること

Every few years the committee chooses to intercalate a leap day to keep the calendar synchronized with the solar year.

暦を太陽年と同期させるために、委員会は数年ごとに閏日を設けることに決めた。

意味（1）

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

'[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day. Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

(molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.

意味（4）

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

... the personal pronouns which form the terminations of the verb, or by an intercalated suffix, the nature and relation of its objects and its subject , and to distinguish whether the object be animate or inanimate, ...

intercalates （ present singular third-person ）

intercalating （ participle present ）

intercalated （ participle past ）

intercalated （ past ）