English Explanatory Dictionary

leap smear

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of smearing the length of one second around the day of the implementation of a leap second (so as to prevent clocks being required to show "23:59:60" which may break systems).

Word forms

leap smear
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