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What does intercalate mean?

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Verb
  1. To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
  2. To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.
  3. (molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.
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Anthony Harriman of the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France, devised a system in which donors and acceptors intercalate into DNA, with random separations.
To prevent this it was customary at regular intervals to intercalate days or months.
So far it would suffice, in accounting for the facts, to intercalate between A and B a few terms, which would remain discrete.
In order to avoid dust, insects or any element which can deteriorate the esthetics of the system, it is advised to intercalate a transparent BARRISOL sheet between the lighting system and the BARRISOL translucent sheet.
Between the two horizons, occasional bands of brackish corbiculids intercalate with sediments containing freshwater gastropods and charophytes.
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow rekindled my interest in literary studies and encouraged my own tendency to intercalate popular and academic sources.

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