Look up intercalation or embolism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Intercalation or embolism in timekeeping is the insertion of a leap day, week, or...

Look up intercalation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Intercalation may refer to: Intercalation (chemistry), insertion of a molecule (or ion) into...

The introduction of intercalation marked an important break from Islam, as under the Islamic calendar the practice of intercalation had been specifically...

smartphones and smartwatches have become the most common timekeeping devices. The most accurate timekeeping devices in practical use today are atomic clocks,...

either pathologically or therapeutically. Embolism in calendars: Intercalation (timekeeping) Embolism (liturgy), a liturgical prayer This disambiguation page...

which point the priests inserted the first intercalation, Caesar's intention was to make the first intercalation at the beginning of the fifth year (February...

Hindu religious purposes. They adopt a similar underlying concept for timekeeping based on sidereal year for solar cycle and adjustment of lunar cycles...

years of either 12 or 13 lunar months (either 354 or 384 days). Without intercalation to add days or months to some years, seasons quickly drift in a calendar...

units do not have a consistent relationship with each other and require intercalation. For example, the year cannot be divided into twelve 28-day months since...

series of intercalation formulas, all of which have in common the basic decennial cycle, as shown in the following table: This extended intercalation scheme...

reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go back to prehistoric times at least as old as the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical...

observation, but there may have been early attempts to model the pattern of intercalation algorithmically, as evidenced in the fragmentary 2nd-century Coligny...

historical significance, and are not a product of actual lunisolar timekeeping or intercalation. A 1528 satire, Rede Me and Be Nott Wrothe, contained the lines...

Hijri) Julian Solar Hijri Astronomical Dominical letter Epact Equinox Intercalation Julian day Leap year Lunar Lunisolar Solar Solstice Tropical year Weekday...

meridian. These events are also known as meridian transits, used in timekeeping and navigation, and measured precisely using a transit telescope. During...

Hijri) Julian Solar Hijri Astronomical Dominical letter Epact Equinox Intercalation Julian day Leap year Lunar Lunisolar Solar Solstice Tropical year Weekday...

Canaan/Mesopotamian Circa 3761 BC Western World It is based on lunar months with the intercalation of an additional month every 2 to 3 years to bring the cycle closer...

maintain its consistency with the solar year, but no evidence of such intercalation before the 4th century BC has yet been discovered. Setting a calendar...

Astronomy was used by early cultures for a variety of reasons. These include timekeeping, navigation, spiritual and religious practices, and agricultural planning...

adopted the Metonic cycle to predict future intercalations. A possible consequence of this intercalation is that 14 Nisan could occur before the equinox...

and solar eclipses. The significant relationship between authority and timekeeping helps to explain why there are 102 calendars in Chinese history, trying...

match in the individual épée to Germany's Britta Heidemann, after a timekeeping error allowed Heidemann to score the winning point before time expired...

Vedas, 19.7.1.) days. The resulting discrepancy was resolved by the intercalation of a leap month every 60 months. Time was reckoned by the position marked...

Manuel Arturo (2009), The Muisca Calendar: An approximation to the timekeeping system of the ancient native people of the northeastern Andes of Colombia...