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- Leap_year abstract "A leap year (or intercalary or bissextile year) is a year containing one additional day (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year, over time, drift with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year.For example, in the Gregorian calendar, each leap year lasts 366 days instead of the usual 365, by extending February to 29 days rather than the common 28 days. Similarly, in the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, Adar Aleph, a 13th lunar month is added seven times every 19 years to the twelve lunar months in its common years to keep its calendar year from drifting through the seasons.The name "leap" year comes from the fact that while a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, in a leap year the day of the week will advance two days (from March onwards) due to the year's extra day inserted at the end of February (thus "leaping over" one of the days in the week). For example, Christmas Day fell on Tuesday in 2001, Wednesday in 2002 and Thursday in 2003 but then "leapt" over Friday to fall on a Saturday in 2004.".
- Leap_year thumbnail Gregoriancalendarleap_solstice.svg?width=300.
- Leap_year wikiPageExternalLink FamousLeapies.htm.
- Leap_year wikiPageExternalLink galileo-day-campaign-29-february-2012.
- Leap_year wikiPageID "17895".
- Leap_year wikiPageRevisionID "606271791".
- Leap_year hasPhotoCollection Leap_year.
- Leap_year p "rùn'èryuè".
- Leap_year s "闰二月".
- Leap_year t "閏二月".
- Leap_year subject Category:Articles_with_example_pseudocode.
- Leap_year subject Category:Calendars.
- Leap_year subject Category:Units_of_time.
- Leap_year comment "A leap year (or intercalary or bissextile year) is a year containing one additional day (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, a month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year, over time, drift with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track.".
- Leap_year label "Anno bisestile".
- Leap_year label "Année bissextile".
- Leap_year label "Ano bissexto".
- Leap_year label "Año bisiesto".
- Leap_year label "Leap year".
- Leap_year label "Rok przestępny".
- Leap_year label "Schaltjahr".
- Leap_year label "Schrikkeljaar".
- Leap_year label "Високосный год".
- Leap_year label "سنة كبيسة".
- Leap_year label "閏年".
- Leap_year label "闰年".
- Leap_year sameAs Přestupný_rok.
- Leap_year sameAs Schaltjahr.
- Leap_year sameAs Δίσεκτο_έτος.
- Leap_year sameAs Año_bisiesto.
- Leap_year sameAs Bisurte.
- Leap_year sameAs Année_bissextile.
- Leap_year sameAs Tahun_Kabisat.
- Leap_year sameAs Anno_bisestile.
- Leap_year sameAs 閏年.
- Leap_year sameAs 윤년.
- Leap_year sameAs Schrikkeljaar.
- Leap_year sameAs Rok_przestępny.
- Leap_year sameAs Ano_bissexto.
- Leap_year sameAs m.04jx5.
- Leap_year sameAs Q19828.
- Leap_year sameAs Q19828.
- Leap_year wasDerivedFrom Leap_year?oldid=606271791.
- Leap_year depiction Gregoriancalendarleap_solstice.svg.
- Leap_year isPrimaryTopicOf Leap_year.