eccentricity

Meaning of eccentricity

noun
  1. The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
  2. The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
    For an ellipse, the eccentricity is the ratio of the distance from the center to a focus divided by the length of the semi-major axis.
  3. The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).

Information about eccentricity

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of eccentricity is: eccentricities.
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Hyphenation of eccentricity

ec-cen-tric-ity

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
  • eccentricity is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Translation of eccentricity

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