1) Leap year
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• (a.) Pertaining to leap year. • (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. H...
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Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. More than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile d...
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Bis·sex'tile noun [ Latin
bissextilis annus, from
bissextus (
bis +
sextus sixth, from
sex six) the sixth of the calends of March, or twenty-fourth day of February, which was reckoned twice every fourth year, by the intercalation of a day.] Leap year; every fourth yea...
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containing or noting the extra day of leap year: The years 1980 and 1984 were both bissextile.
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