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Meaning of intercalary
intercalary (s)
having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year:
intercalary (a.)
Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.
intercalary (n.)
Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary.
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having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year:Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary mo
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The intercalary month, Adar II, is inserted into the Hebrew calendar every few years to align the lunar and solar calendars.
In the Roman calendar, an intercalary day called the "dies intercalaris" was added every two years to the month of February.
Some astronomers propose adding an intercalary day to the calendar every several years to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation.
The Soviet Union briefly experimented with an intercalary week, known as "Stalin's Week," in the 1930s.
