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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eccentricity \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
eccentricity
n 1: strange and unconventional behavior
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"
3: a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a
circular path [ant: {concentricity}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ
it to accentuate their incapacity.
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