Depinisyon ng metemptosis, Kahulugan ng metemptosis

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Definition of metemptosis

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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 bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.

source: Webster 1913

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