The Leap Years — Infobox Film name = The Leap Years imdb id = writer = Jean Yeo, Alain Layrac, Fina Torres, George Walker T Catherine Lim (novel) starring = Wong Lilin Ananda Everingham Qi Yuwu Joan Chen director = Jean Yeo producer = Chan Pui Yin Ng San San… … Wikipedia
List of leap years — In the Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, most years that are divisible by 4 are leap years. In a leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28. This compensates for the fact that a solar year is… … Wikipedia
Leap year — Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty nine days. See {Bissextile}. [1913 Webster] Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainde … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
leap year — leap years N COUNT A leap year is a year which has 366 days. The extra day is the 29th February. There is a leap year every four years … English dictionary
Leap year — A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, in the… … Wikipedia
Leap week calendar — A leap week calendar is a calendar system with a whole number of weeks every year, and with every year starting on the same weekday. Most leap week calendars are proposed reforms to the civil calendar, but some such as the ISO week number… … Wikipedia
leap year — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms leap year : singular leap year plural leap years a year that has 366 days instead of 365. Leap years happen every four years, when February has 29 days instead of 28 … English dictionary
LEAP YEAR — LEAP YEAR, refers to the 13 month year in the jewish calendar . Leap year results from the intercalation (Heb. עִבּוּר, pregnancy ) of an additional month, called Adar Sheni ( Second Adar ) or Ve Adar ( and Adar ). Adar, the regular 12th month,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Leap Castle — is an Irish castle in County Offaly, about four miles north of the town of Roscrea on the R421. It was built in 1250 Fact|date=October 2007by the O Bannon family and was originally called Léim Uí Bhanáin, or Leap of the O Bannons. The O Bannons… … Wikipedia
leap year — ► NOUN ▪ a year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an intercalary day. ORIGIN probably from the fact that feast days after February in a leap year fell two days later than in the previous year, rather… … English terms dictionary
