eccentricity

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eccentricity (enc)

Noun	1.	eccentricity - strange and unconventional behavior strangeness, unfamiliarity - unusualness as a consequence of not being well known oddity, oddness - eccentricity that is not easily explained
	2.	eccentricity - (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" geometry - the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces ratio - the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
	3.	eccentricity - a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path circularity, disk shape - the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure concentricity - the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another)

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