Noun
- 1. eccentricity, unfamiliarity, strangeness
- usage: strange and unconventional behavior
- 2. eccentricity, ratio
- usage: (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"
- 3. eccentricity, circularity, disk shape
- usage: a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path
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