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