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UK
/ˌɛksɪntɹˈɪsɪti/
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[ US /ˌɛksənˈtɹɪsəti/ ]
[ US /ˌɛksənˈtɹɪsəti/ ]
NOUN
- a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path
- strange and unconventional behavior
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(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
How To Use eccentricity In A Sentence
- It's not entirely accurate - the book is a bit darker than that, but there is a fair bit of lovable eccentricity to the characters.
- The eccentricity, bleeding, wire breaking, low mechanic property in the production of aluminium - clad steel wire are analyzed, the prevention and the resolution method put forword.
- Pluto, which has the greatest orbital eccentricity of any of the Solar System planets, was during those years at perihelion and actually closer than Neptune to the Sun.
- Yet, I would venture the admittedly broad suggestion that their eccentricity and passions prepped the ground in a weird sort of "lowering-the-threshold" way for the likes of Einstein, Freud, Ibsen, Althusser, Sartre, Mapplethorpe, Serra, etc. Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: SFMOMA's The Steins Collect Documents a Life of Art Collecting
- And that ‘unusualness’ could be anything: beauty, ugliness, deformity, eccentricity…..anything. The picture not taken « knitnut.net
- In twenty cases various neurosal disorders had been prominent in the family and its branches, of which neuralgia, chorea, hysteria, eccentricity, mania, epilepsy and inebriety, were most common. Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink
- They are born actors, able to furrow their brows in concentration and not think twice about how the neighbors might view this seeming eccentricity.
- Along that stretch of two-lane, one encounters a remarkable range of topiary and ornamental eccentricity.
- I don't know if this is endearing eccentricity or a form of bewildering madness.
- Ultimately, only the smallest separation in the 'fixate' condition was within the regime of the Weber's Law (ratio lower than 0.5), whereas the remaining conditions should be mainly influenced by the eccentricity of the furthest dot. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles