LEAP SECOND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A second (as measured by an atomic clock) added to or subtracted from Greenwich Mean Time in order to compensate for slowing in the Earth's rotation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("leap second" is a kind of...):

s; sec; second (1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites)

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