Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leap smear

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: leap s-mear
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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).

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does leap smear mean?: 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).

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