Meaning Of The Word Leap second

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leap second in British English
noun: a second added to or removed from a scale for reckoning time on one particular occasion, to synchronize it with another scale
noun: an extra second intercalated into the world's timekeeping system about once a year, made necessary by the gradual slowing down of the earth's rotation

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