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centurial

[ sen-toor-ee-uhl, -tyoor- ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to a century.


centurial

/ ɛˈʊəɪə /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a Roman century
  2. rare.
    involving a period of 100 years
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of centurial1

1600–10; < Latin Գٳܰ, equivalent to centuri ( a ) century + - -al 1
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Naqvi studied with Cyrille at the New School in the mid-’90s and with Smith at CalArts in 2006 — the album title is a nod to the centurial hump between enrollments.

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But there’s an exception to that: The centurial years that are exactly divisible by 400 are leap years.

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In order to account for this, Leap Day is skipped on “centurial years not divisible by 400.”

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But if Holzhauer continues to dominate the game as he has during his first 11 episodes, he will have effectively turned Jennings into Steffi Graf, a generational talent, and crowned himself Serena Williams, a centurial one.

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Because the Julian calendar has a leap year in all years divisible by four—without excepting centurial years not divisible by 400, the way the Gregorian calendar does—the discrepancy between the Julian and Gregorian calendar changes periodically.

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