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- Dictionaryeccentric/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"
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.
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2 days ago · He suggested six types – excitable, unstable, eccentric, liar, swindler and quarrelsome. The categories were essentially defined by the most disordered criminal offenders observed, distinguished between criminals by impulse, professional criminals, and morbid vagabonds who wandered through life.
2 days ago · The elongation of an ellipse is measured by its eccentricity , a number ranging from (the limiting case of a circle) to (the limiting case of infinite elongation, no longer an ellipse but a parabola).
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5 days ago · Perhaps you have heard the term abnormal behavior before and thought that it refers to any human behavior that seems strange or eccentric. This might be a reasonable assumption in everyday life, but abnormal behavior refers to something more specific in a psychological context.
22 hours ago · This cinematic classic came to define the essential qualities of a Bond film; the design, the locations, the gadgets, and the eccentric adversary. Today, on the anniversary of the film’s premiere on 17 September 1964, Rolls-Royce explores the story of Goldfinger and the British icon that featured in it – the Rolls-Royce Phantom.
3 days ago · Salvador Dalí (born May 11, 1904, Figueras, Spain—died January 23, 1989, Figueras) was a Spanish artist and filmmaker, who was part of the Surrealist group in his early career and continued to build on the movement’s ideas and imagery throughout his life. His eccentric behavior and his eerie paintings made him the best known of the group .
2 days ago · A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula.
