| 单词 |
intercalated |
| 释义 |
intercalated, ppl. a.|ɪnˈtɜːkəleɪtɪd| [f. intercalate v. + -ed1.] Inserted or introduced between the members of an existing series. a. Of an additional day, month, or space of time; hence transf. of something written or spoken, etc.; interpolated.
1845Darwin Voy. Nat. v. (1879) 84 An intercalated period of subsidence, of which we have no evidence. 1846Joyce Sci. Dial., Astron. xiii. 97 The intercalated day was called bis sexto calendas Martii. 1849Longfellow Kavanagh xxvii. Pr. Wks. 1886 II. 396 Dreamy little pauses of silence, and intercalated sighs. 1883A. Edersheim Life Jesus (ed. 6) II. 529 What follows seems an intercalated sentence. b. Of material things; esp. geological strata.
1849Murchison Siluria iv. 84 The intercalated beds of fossiliferous grits. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man viii. (ed. 3) 138 The liquefaction of underlying or intercalated snow and ice. 1876Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. xi. 194. |

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