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S vs Intercalate - What's the difference?

s | intercalate |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb intercalate is

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

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    intercalate

    English

    (wikipedia intercalate)

    Verb

    (intercalat)
  • To insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
  • * 1844 , , Essays: Second Series , ch. 2:
    • '[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.
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    See also

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