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Hindi Word अधिवर्ष Meaning in English - Bissextile - अधिवर्ष अंग्रेज़ी में अर्थ

अधिवर्ष Meaning in English is Bissextile, which is also written as 'Adhivarsh ' in Roman.

Definitions of Bissextile

adj. Pertaining to leap year.

n. 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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How To Spell Bissextile [bahy-seks-til, -tahyl, bi-]

Origin of Bissextile Late Middle English: from Latin bisextilis (annus) or bissextilis (annus) ‘the year of the bissextus’, from bissextus (from bis ‘twice’ + sextus ‘sixth’), the name given to the extra day inserted every fourth year by the Julian calendar, which