单词 | centurial year |
释义 | > as lemmascenturial year centurial year n. the last year of a century in the traditional reckoning (see note at century n. 5a), in which the last two digits of the year are 00. ΚΠ 1756Centurial Year [see sense 3]. 1757 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained (ed. 2) xxi. 245 Every 400 years of the New Style gains 3 days upon the Old Style: one of which it gains in each of the centurial years succeeding that which is exactly divisible by 4. 1877 S. Butcher Eccl. Cal. xxx. 36 In any two consecutive centurial years, the 1st of January in the one year will be 6 week-days apart from January 1 in the other. 1982 Sci. Amer. May 104/2 A plan was adopted whereby in three out of every four centurial years..for example 1700, 1800 and 1900..the leap day that would have been added in the Julian system would henceforth be omitted. < as lemmas |
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