Bissextile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to a leap year.
  • adj. Of or relating to the extra day falling in a leap year.
  • n. A leap year.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having an extra day (of a leap year).
  • n. A leap year; A year having an extra day.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.
  • adj. Pertaining to leap year.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Containing the bissextus or intercalary day: applied to those years which have 366 days, the extra day being inserted in the month of February. See bissextus.
  • n. A leap-year (which see).
    • Word Usage
    "Eugene Volokh • May 12, 2010 9: 42 pm that I am bissextile, frombirth."
    Cross Reference
    intercalate    leap year    leap day   
     
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