Usually means: Extra day added every February.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. leap year: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leap year: Merriam-Webster
  3. leap year: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leap year: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. leap year: Collins English Dictionary
  6. leap year: Vocabulary.com
  7. leap-year, leap year: Wordnik
  8. leap year: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. leap-year, leap year: Wiktionary
  10. leap year: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. leap year: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Leap year, leap year: Dictionary.com
  13. Leap Year (TV series), Leap Year (film), Leap year (disambiguation), Leap year: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Leap year: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. leap year: Rhymezone
  16. leap year: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. leap-year: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Leap Year: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. leap year: FreeDictionary.org
  20. leap year: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. leap year: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Leap year: Legal dictionary
  2. leap year: Financial dictionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leap year: CCI Computer
  2. leap year: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leap Year: Holidays Around the World

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Leap Year: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  4. LEAP YEAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leap year: Urban Dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (leap year)

noun:  A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar with an intercalary day added to February (in the Gregorian calendar, February 29), used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.
noun:  (loosely) Any other year featuring intercalation, such as a year in a lunisolar calendar with 13 months instead of 12, used to maintain its alignment with the seasons of the solar year.

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