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  1. 1. 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. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. a calendar year with an extra day added in February Source: wordnet
  3. 3. . 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. Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the full centuries, which, to be leap years, must be divisible by 400 without a remainder. If not so divisible they are common years. 1900, therefore, is not a leap year. Source: webster
  4. 4. . Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth yearwhich leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to Februarytwenty-nine days. See Bissextile. Source: adambom

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