eccentricity

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eccentricity
n. irregularity, oddity; strangeness, unconventionality


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Eccentricity
Eccentricity may refer to:Eccentricity (behavior), unusual or odd behavior on the part of a person, as opposed to being "normal"Eccentricity (mathematics), a parameter associated with every conic sectionEccentricity vectorEccentricity (graph theory) of a vertex in a graphEccentric contraction, lengthening of muscle fibersEccentric (mechanism), a wheel that rotates on an axle that is displaced from the focus of the circle described by the wheelEccentric position of a surveying tripod to be able to measure hidden pointsOrbital eccentricity, in astrodynamics, calculated from orbital state vectors as an absolute value of eccentricity vector or using other methods based on orbital energy and angular momentum.Eccentric anomaly, the angle between the direction of periapsis and the current position of an object on its orbit.Eccentric (astronomy), a type of deferent, a circle or sphere used in obsolete astronomical systems to carry a planet around the Earth or Sun.
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eccentricity
Noun
1. strange and unconventional behavior
(hypernym) unfamiliarity, strangeness
(hyponym) oddity, oddness
2. (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"
(hypernym) ratio
(classification) geometry
3. a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path
(antonym) concentricity
(hypernym) circularity, disk shape


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Eccentricity
(n.)
The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
  
 
(n.)
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.
  
 
(n.)
The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
  
 
(n.)
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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eccentricity
n.
1. oddity
نرالا پن, خبط, بے قاعدگي
2. (Ast.)
مرکز سے انحراف, کج روي, بکر چال
ecchymosis, n. (Med.)
جوش خون سے جلد پر نيلے داغ پڑ جانا

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