Bissextile Year (Noun)
Meaning
A calendar year with an extra day added in February.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- A bissextile year has 366 days with the extra day added to the month of February.
- The ancient Romans introduced the concept of a bissextile year to keep their lunar calendar in sync with the solar year.
- Calendar systems using bissextile years are designed to account for the extra time it takes the Earth to orbit the sun.
- Leap year is another term for a bissextile year, which is added every four years in the Gregorian calendar.
- The calendar irregularities resulting from bissextile years are minimized by adding only one extra day to the month with the least number of days, February.