eccentricity
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˌɛk.sɛnˈtɹɪs.ɪ.ti/, [ˌɛk.sənˈtɹɪs.ə.ɾi]
eccentricity
- The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
- (mathematics) The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
- For an ellipse, the eccentricity is the ratio of the distance from the center to a focus divided by the length of the semi-major axis.
- (astronomy) The distance of the centre of a planet's orbit from the centre of the sun.
- French: excentricité
- Italian: eccentricità
- Portuguese: excentricidade
- Russian: эксцентри́чность
- Spanish: excentricidad
- French: excentricité
- German: exzentrisches Verhalten
- Portuguese: excentricidade
- Spanish: excentricidad
- French: excentricité
- German: Exzentrizität
- Russian: эксцентрисите́т
- Spanish: excentricidad
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