leap year
- In the Gregorian calendar,
a year lasting 366 days
rather than 365, with February 29 (leap day) added as the extra day;
this occurs in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by 4;
e.g., 1996.
- A year with an extra day in any other calendar.
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