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   eccentric

   /ɪkˈsɛntrɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange: "he noted her eccentric appearance"
   • 2. not placed centrally or not having its axis or other part placed centrally: technical "a servo driving an eccentric cam"
   • ▪ (of a circle) not centred on the same point as another.
   • ▪ (of an orbit) not circular.

   noun

   • 1. a person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour: "he's seen as a local eccentric"
   • 2. a disc or wheel mounted eccentrically on a revolving shaft in order to transform rotation into backward-and-forward motion, e.g. a cam in an internal combustion engine.

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun denoting a circle or orbit not having the earth precisely at its centre): via late Latin from Greek ekkentros, from ek ‘out of’ + kentron ‘centre’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. eccentrically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 15

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