Noun: eccentricity ,ek,sen'tri-su-tee
- Strange and unconventional behaviour
"Her eccentricity made her stand out in the conservative office";
- kookiness [informal]
- A circularity that has a different centre or deviates from a circular path
"The eccentricity of the planet's orbit affects its climate"
- (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
"a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity"
Derived forms: eccentricities
Type of: circularity, disk shape, ratio, strangeness, unfamiliarity
Antonym: concentricity
Encyclopedia: Eccentricity