eccentricity – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
eccentricity
n.
irregularity, oddity; strangeness, unconventionality
Eccentricity
Eccentricity or
eccentric may refer to:
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
eccentricity
n.
podivínství; výstřednost
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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