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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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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: second, sec, s
1971; derived from the terminology for leap day/leap year.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
閏秒 /闰秒
(rùnmiǎo)
— 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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Finnish:
karkaussekunti
— 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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German:
Schaltsekunde
— 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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Hungarian:
szökőmásodperc
— 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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Italian:
secondo intercalare
— 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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Russian:
корректировочная секу́нда
(korrektirovočnaja sekúnda)
— 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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Russian:
секу́нда координации
(sekúnda koordinacii)
— 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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Russian:
високосная секу́нда
(visokosnaja sekúnda)
— 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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Spanish:
segundo intercalar
— 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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Swedish:
skottsekund
— 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
