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bissextile

/bahy-seks-til, -tahyl, bih-/US // baɪˈsɛks tɪl, -taɪl, bɪ- //UK // (bɪˈsɛkstaɪl) //

双鱼座,双相思,双鱼座的人,双色球

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : containing or noting the extra day of leap year: The years 1980 and 1984 were both bissextile.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : leap year.

Examples

  • I refer you to Montucla, if you have any doubt about the Egyptian year being of 365 days without bissextile of any kind.

  • The fourth year was bissextile, and the dominical letters were F, E; the following year D, and so on.

  • The bissextile is known to have been used by the Mayas, Tzendals, and Quichés, and it was probably common.

  • Can we therefore believe that the Egyptians before this period were ignorant of the bissextile intercalation?

  • This fourth year was denominated Bissextile, because the sixth day before the Kalends of March was reckoned twice.