intercalation

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in·ter·ca·la·tion

(in-ter'kă-lā'shŭn),
The process of insertion between two other entities, for example, insertion of a dye or drug between stacked bases in DNA.
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Our calculation depends on three assumptions: that the Spartan festival was the Karneia, that the festival fell in the 11th month after the fall equinox, and that no leap month intervened that year.
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