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Eccentricity

Eccentricity Meaning & Definition
Eccentricity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Eccentricity?

[n] strange and unconventional behavior
[n] a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path
[n] (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis; "a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity"

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Related Terms | Find terms related to Eccentricity: aberrance | aberrancy | aberration | abnormality | abnormity | absurdity | absurdness | amorphism | animus | anomalism | anomalousness | anomaly | aptitude | arrhythmia | asininity | battiness | bent | bias | bizarreness | bizarrerie | brainlessness | brokenness | buffoonery | capriciousness | cast | character | choppiness | clownishness | constitution | crackpottedness | crankiness | craziness | daffiness | derangement | desipience | desultoriness | deviability | deviation | diathesis | difference | disconnectedness | discontinuity | disposition | divergence | drollery | drollness | erraticism | erraticness | fatuity | fatuousness | fibrillation | fickleness | fitfulness | fits and starts | flightiness | fluctuation | folly | foolery | foolheadedness | foolishness | freakishness | frivolity | frivolousness | funniness | giddiness | goofiness | grain | heteromorphism | hilarity | humorousness | idiocy | idiosyncrasy | imbecility | impulsiveness | inanity | inclination | incongruity | inconsistency | inconstancy | individualism | ineptitude | inferiority | insanity | instability | intermittence | irregularity | jerkiness | kidney | laughability | leaning | ludicrousness | lunacy | madness | make | makeup | mental set | mercuriality | mettle | mind | mindlessness | mind-set | mold | monstrosity | moodiness | nature | niaiserie | nonuniformity | nugacity | nuttiness | patchiness | predilection | predisposition | preference | pricelessness | proclivity | propensity | quaintness | queerness | quizzicalness | restlessness | richness | ridiculousness | roughness | sappiness | screwiness | senselessness | set | shiftiness | silliness | slant | spasticity | sporadicity | sporadicness | spottiness | stagger | stamp | strain | streak | stripe | stupidity | subnormality | superiority | temper | temperament | tendency | teratism | the funny side | thoughtlessness | triflingness | triviality | turn | turn of mind | twist | type | uncertainty | undependability | unevenness | unfixedness | unmethodicalness | unnaturalism | unnaturalness | unpredictability | unreliability | unsettledness | unstableness | unsteadfastness | unsteadiness | unsystematicness | variability | variation | variety | wackiness | wantonness | warp | waywardness | weirdness | whimsicality | whimsicalness | witlessness | wittiness | wobble | zaniness | zanyism

See Also | circularity | disk shape | oddity | oddness | ratio | strangeness | unfamiliarity

Eccentricity In Webster's Dictionary

\Ec`cen*tric"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Eccentricities}. [Cf. F. excentricit['e].] 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity. 2. (Math.) The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. 3. (Astron.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit. 4. (Mech.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.

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