English Explanatory Dictionary

eccentricity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
  2. The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
  3. The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).
  4. The farthest distance from a vertex to any other vertex.

Pronunciation

/ˌɛk.sɛnˈtɹɪs.ɪ.ti/ [ˌɛk.sənˈtɹɪs.ə.ɾi] En-us-eccentricity.ogg

Word forms

eccentricity eccentricities

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin eccentricitās. By surface analysis, eccentric + -ity.

Translations

Catalan: excentricitat Chinese Mandarin: 離心率 /离心率 Dutch: excentriciteit Finnish: eksentrisyys Finnish: epäkeskisyys French: excentricité Galician: excentricidade German: Exzentrizität Hungarian: excentricitás Irish: éalárnacht Italian: eccentricità Norwegian Bokmål: eksentrisitet Norwegian Nynorsk: eksentrisitet Polish: ekscentryczność Polish: mimośród Portuguese: excentricidade Romanian: excentricitate Russian: эксцентрисите́т Spanish: excentricidad Swedish: excentricitet Turkish: eksantriklik Turkish: eksantrisite
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