eccentricity
Meaning of eccentricity
noun
- The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
- 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.
- 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
- Spanish: excentricidad
- Italian: bizzarria, eccentricità
- French: excentricité
- German: Exzentrizität
- Portuguese: excentricidade
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