Word Meanings - ECCENTRICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

ECCENTRICITY
The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. (more info) 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
ECCENTRICALLY
In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
ECCENTRICAL
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ECCENTRIC
Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine. 4. Not coincident as to motive or end. His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master. Bacon. 5. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice,