English noun: eccentricity |
1. | eccentricity (attribute) strange and unconventional behavior |
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| Broader (hypernym) | strangeness, unfamiliarity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | oddity, oddness |
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2. | eccentricity (shape) (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 |
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| Samples | A circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity.
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| Broader (hypernym) | ratio |
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| Domain category | geometry |
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3. | eccentricity (attribute) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path |
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| Broader (hypernym) | circularity, disk shape |
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| Antonyms | concentricity |
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