Eccentricity

[,eksen'trɪsɪtɪ] or [,ɛksɛn'trɪsəti]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) strange and unconventional behavior.

(noun.) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path.

(noun.) (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'.

錄入:莉娜--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.

(n.) The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.

(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.

(n.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.

克拉丽莎校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Irregularity, peculiarity, oddness, oddity, singularity, waywardness, strangeness, aberration.

伯纳黛特校對