bissextile
/bi'sekstail/
📖 中文释义
- a. 闰的
- n. 闰年
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- 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.
- a. Pertaining to leap year.