intercalary
nounEtymology From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).
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Such a time period
- Related terms
- bissextile, bissextile month, bissextile year, leap year, leap day
intercalary
adjUS /ˌɪnt.ɚˈkæl.ɚ.i/
Etymology From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).
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Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
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Sciences Broadly Inserted between other things
- Breaks caused by chromosome aberrations in regions with repeats may not result in a sharp decline of viability, so that break points of chromosome rearrangements in intercalary heterochromatin may be more frequent than in other regions.1982 December, I. F. Zhimulev et al., “Intercalary heterochromatin in Drosophila”, in Chromosoma, volume 87, →DOI, pages 197–228:
- In this new model, the anterior and posterior blastemas were formed as signaling centers to direct intercalary reorganization of body regionality or positional information.2007 February 28, Kitokazu Agata et al., “Unifying principles of regeneration I: Epimorphosis versus morphallaxis”, in Development, Growth, and Differentiation, →DOI:
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Biology, Entomology, Natural sciences, Sciences Broadly of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.
- ...two radial cells, second longer than first; intercalary fork fairly distinct; crossvein r-m vertical...1953, Willis W. Wirth, “American Biting Midges of the Helid Genus Monohelea”, in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 103, number 3320, pages 135–154:
- Derived terms
- intercalarily, intercalary meristem
- Related terms
- intercalate, intercalation