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What (who) is Eccentric - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Eccentric; Excentric; Eccentricity (disambiguation)
eccentric
a.
1.
Without a centre, deviating from the centre, deviating from a circle.
2.
With different centres, non-concentric.
3.
Irregular, abnormal, anomalous, peculiar, uncommon, unnatural, singular, strange, wayward, odd, aberrant, erratic, whimsical.
Eccentric
·adj Not coincident as to motive or end.
II. Eccentric ·adj Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
III. Eccentric ·noun A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
IV. Eccentric ·noun One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
V. Eccentric ·noun A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
VI. Eccentric ·noun In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.
VII. Eccentric ·adj Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
VIII. Eccentric ·adj Not having the same center;
- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, ·etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center;
- opposed to concentric.
IX. Eccentric ·adj Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
X. Eccentric ·noun A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
eccentric
[?k's?ntr?k, ?k-]
¦ adjective
1. unconventional and slightly strange.
2. technical not placed centrally or not having its axis placed centrally.
(of an orbit) not circular, especially to a marked degree.
¦ noun
1. an eccentric person.
2. a cam or other part mounted eccentrically on a revolving shaft in order to transform rotation into backward-and-forward motion.
Derivatives
eccentrically adverb
eccentricity noun (plural eccentricities).
Origin
ME: via late L. from Gk ekkentros, from ek 'out of' + kentron 'centre'.
Wikipedia
Eccentricity
Eccentricity or eccentric may refer to:
- Eccentricity (behavior), odd behavior on the part of a person, as opposed to being "normal"
Examples of use of Eccentric
1. The Llewelyn–Bowens‘ household is gloriously eccentric.
2. Scripts began to arrive÷ in the neophiliac culture of the time, this eccentric new venue, making no concessions to contemporary style, had an eccentric buzz about it.
3. And this could be one eccentric life choice too far.
4. She tidy and well organised, he a slovenly eccentric.
5. Today this interpretation, if not quite eccentric, is rare.