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Definitions: BISSEXTILE |
BISSEXTILEAdjective1. Pertaining to leap year. Noun1. 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. |
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Literature | Bissextile Leap-year. We add a day to February in leap-year, but the Romans counted the 24th of February twice. Now, the 24th of February was called by them "dies bissextus" (sexto calendas Martias), the sextile or sixth day before March 1st; and this day being reckoned twice (bis) in leap-year, was called "annus bissextus." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day; Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BISSEXTILE |
| English words defined with "BISSEXTILE": bissextile day, Bissextile year ♦ Metemptosis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BISSEXTILE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bissextile, leap year). |
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Expressions using "BISSEXTILE": bissextile day ♦ Bissextile year. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "BISSEXTILE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bisekstil, viti bisekstil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كبيسي, سنة كبيسة (leap year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | високосна година (leap year), високосен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bissextile, année bissextile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schaltjahr (leap year, leapyear, leap-year), schalt-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szökõév (leap year), szökõ-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bisestile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | blein vishee (leap year). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issextilebay bissexto. (various references) bisect. (various references) високосный год (intercalary year, leap year, leap-year), високосный. (various references) prestupni, prestupna godina (leap year). (various references) skottår (leap year, leap-year). (various references) artıkyıl ile ilgili, artıkyıl. (various references) високосний рік (intercalary year). (various references) năm nhuận. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"BISSEXTILE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bisextile, Bussitil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-i-l-s-s-t-x" | |
-2 letters: exitless, sextiles. | |
-3 letters: betises, lexises, listees, sexiest, sextile, silexes, sixties, telesis, tieless. | |
-4 letters: belies, besets, betels, betise, blites, elites, exiles, exists, ibexes, ibises, ilexes, islets, istles, ixtles, listee, sexist, sixtes, sleets, sliest, steels, steles, stiles. | |
-5 letters: beets, belie, belts, beset, bests, betel, biles, bises, bites, bless, blest, blets, bliss, blite, elite, exile, exist, exits. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-i-l-s-s-t-x" | |
+3 letters: bisexualities. | |
+5 letters: ambisexualities, expansibilities, extensibilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 53 53 45 58 54 49 4C 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01011000 01010100 01001001 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I S S E X T I L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0053 0053 0045 0058 0054 0049 004C 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36435353395854434639 |
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