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"A second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"word": "閏秒"
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"roman": "rùnmiǎo",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"word": "szökőmásodperc"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
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"word": "secondo intercalare"
},
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"roman": "korrektirovočnaja sekúnda",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "корректировочная секу́нда"
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
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"feminine"
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"word": "секу́нда координации"
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "високосная секу́нда"
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
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"masculine"
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"word": "segundo intercalar"
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"word": "閏秒"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "rùnmiǎo",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"word": "闰秒"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"word": "karkaussekunti"
},
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schaltsekunde"
},
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"word": "szökőmásodperc"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "secondo intercalare"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "korrektirovočnaja sekúnda",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "корректировочная секу́нда"
},
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "секу́нда координации"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "visokosnaja sekúnda",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "високосная секу́нда"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
"tags": [
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"word": "segundo intercalar"
},
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "a second of time added to the year occasionally to compensate for variation in the rate of Earth's rotation relative to the absolute standards of time",
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"word": "skottsekund"
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