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Definition of Leap day
1. Noun. The name of the day that is added during a leap year.
Definition of Leap day
1. Noun. The extra day (currently February 29th in most countries, in Julian calendar February 24th) in a leap year. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leap Day
Literary usage of Leap day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
"It will be necessary to omit one additional leap day every 3323 years. Starting with
AD 325 as correct, the leap day should be dropped about the year AD ..."
2. General Astronomy by Harold Spencer Jones (1922)
"In leap years a second supplementary day is added at the end of the year and
called leap day. A simple perpetual calendar is thus obtained : (1st quarter . ..."
3. Astronomy Without Mathematics by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1883)
"Accordingly Sir J. Herschel proposed to carry the correction a step farther by
making every 4000th year lose its leap day, though it is divisible by 400: ..."
4. A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1874)
"I have shown in my ' Astronomy' that a much more complete correction would be
made by simply dropping every 32nd leap-day, or that of every ..."
5. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations by Royal Society of Canada (1908)
"-_ ;-ole E indicate, 1st, the dates for the year 1916 (with Leap-day re- ...
The removal of "Leap-Day" (which should be a public holiday) to precede the 1st ..."
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