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- Eccentricity - n. - The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
- Eccentricity - n. - The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
- Eccentricity - n. - 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.
- Eccentricity - n. - The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.
- Humorist - n. - One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
- Throw - n. - The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.