leap second

English

Noun

leap second (plural leap seconds)

1. 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.

Related terms

• leap
• leap year
• second

Translations

added second

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閏秒, 闰秒 (rùnmiǎo)

• Finnish: karkaussekunti
• German: Schaltsekunde (de) f
• Hungarian: szökőmásodperc

• Italian: secondo intercalare m
• Russian: корректировочная секу́нда f (korrektirovočnaja sekúnda), секу́нда координации f (sekúnda koordinacii), високосная секу́нда f (visokosnaja sekúnda)
• Spanish: segundo intercalar m
• Swedish: skottsekund c

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