Ashur points to the late addition of this intercalated month, and makes it probable also that the intercalation is the work of astronomers standing under Assyrian authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
The year consisted of 365 days, with an intercalation of. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
With this correction the rule of intercalation is as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
We must first observe what is said about the intercalation of the year. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Lilius had also to adapt the lunar year to the new rule of intercalation. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Gregorian rule of intercalation respecting the secular years was adopted. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Wherefore, then, do they not transact the intercalation of the year there?. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
The fraction 8/33 offers a convenient and very accurate method of intercalation. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Regensburg that the new style and the Gregorian correction of the intercalation should be adopted. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
“The word seems to be a Customs intercalation,” constitutional scholar Joaquin Bernas, SJ noted. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
The theory of Gama, that the intercalation was still more exact, namely, 12-1/2 days instead of 13, seems to be erroneous. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
But every fourth year is a leap year, and the effect of the intercalation is to throw the dominical letter one place farther back. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
George Gamow, the physicist, had steered me to Leonard Lerman, then working on the intercalation of acridines into DNA at the University of Colorado. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Altman - Autobiography] Reference
Although the Julian method of intercalation is perhaps the most convenient that could be adopted, yet, as it supposes the year too long by 11 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Extensive transitional landforms comprise an extremely complex intercalation of limestone massifs and terrigenous terrain with a diversity of rock types. From Wordnik.com. [Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam] Reference
The year 1600 was a leap year; the intercalation accordingly took place as usual, and there was no interruption in the order of the epacts; the line D was employed till. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The intercalation of a 12-day New Fire festival period once every 52 years brought the Mexicas into nearly perfect synchronization with the true cycles of earth and sun. From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of the Fifth Sun: the Aztec Calendar] Reference
The intercalation of the year respected chiefly the Paschal solemnity; namely, that by the interposing of the intercalated month all things might be ripe and fit for that feast. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
After this series, I plan to do one called "Present day batteries" where I will focus on intercalation and then one called "Future of batteries" where conversion etc will come in. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Batteries- Part 1] Reference
February, the whole intercalation in this year was 90 days. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference
The clumsiest of them -- the perpetual intercalation or interpolation of. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Jonâda first practises the intercalation of a month among the Arabs, 139. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
"Synthesis of first stage graphite intercalation compounds with fluorides". From Wordnik.com. [Haddock Links] Reference
Some agents such as intoplicine, the acridine XR5000 (DACA) bind to DNA by intercalation. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
They always take their solid three meals, with a liberal intercalation of dishes of tea and chocolate. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
This apparent intercalation of younger among older zones has now been accounted for by infoldings and faulting of the strata. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
The position of each peak on the horizontal axis corresponds to the increase in duplex length caused by ethidium intercalation. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
And he provided for a uniform intercalation of one day in every fourth year, which accounted for the remaining quarter of a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The intercalation of a month every third year, in order to reduce the lunar to the solar years, is justified by the Muhammadans from this passage. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
Viotti M, Hadjantonakis AK (2008) The endoderm of the mouse embryo arises by dynamic widespread intercalation of embryonic and extraembryonic lineages. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Their year accordingly was lunisolar, consisting of twelve lunar months, with an intercalation to make the whole agree with the annual course of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
The introduction of a good system of intercalation, and the reform of the calendars, the indispensable basis of an accurate chronology, took place in the year 1091. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Davidson L, Keller R (1999) Neural tube closure in Xenopus laevis involves medial migration, directed protrusive activity, cell intercalation, and convergent extension. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
In an analogous manner, the particle mna added to the Tamanac verb, not at the end, but by intercalation, gives it a negative sense, as taro, to say, taromnar, not to say. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Hence it was soon felt -- how soon cannot now be ascertained -- that the difference between the lunar and the solar years should be equalized by the intercalation of a month. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
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