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Intercalary calendar
A calendar in which days are inserted or removed from time to time to make the length of the calendar year agree better with the length of the tropical year. Tropical year and the mean solar day are incommensurable, so any calendar year containing an integral number of mean solar days must therefore fall short of or exceed, by a fraction of a day, the tropical year.
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