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metemptosis

metemptosis noun: the suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the leap day once in 134 years.

Noun

metemptosis (uncountable)

  1. (historical) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the leap day once in 134 years.

Antonyms of metemptosis

Origin of metemptosis

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετέμπτωσις (metémptōsis), from μετεμπίπτω (metempíptō).

Questions about metemptosis

What does metemptosis mean?
Metemptosis means the suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the leap day once in 134 years.
What part of speech is metemptosis?
Metemptosis is a noun.

Words near metemptosis in the dictionary

  1. metempsychosized
  2. metempsychosizes
  3. metempsychosizing
  4. metempsychotic
  5. metempsychotically
  6. metemptosis
  7. metencephala
  8. metencephalic
  9. metencephalin
  10. metencephalins
  11. metencephalon

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