eccentricity

eccentricity is a 12-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 24 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
2. noun. The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.
5. noun. strange and unconventional behavior
6. noun. a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path
7. 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"

Common word forms

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Words from these letters

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