Usually means: Adjustment to synchronize atomic time.
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  1. leap second: Merriam-Webster
  2. leap second: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leap second: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leap second: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leap second: Vocabulary.com
  6. leap second: Wiktionary
  7. leap second: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. leap second: Dictionary.com
  9. Leap Second, Leap second: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. leap second: Rhymezone
  11. leap second: FreeDictionary.org
  12. leap second: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. leap second: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leap second: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Leap-second, leap second: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Leap Second: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Leap Second: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See leap_seconds as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (leap second)

noun:  A second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time.

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