Intercalate vs Intercalant - What's the difference?
intercalate | intercalant |
To insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
* 1844 , , Essays: Second Series , ch. 2:
To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The has such a month.
(molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.
As a verb intercalate
is to insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.As a noun intercalant is
(chemistry) any molecule that intercalates, or is inserted, between two others.intercalate
English
(wikipedia intercalate)Verb
(intercalat)- '[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.
