Definition:
- (a.) Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
- (a.) Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.
- (a.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
- (a.) Not coincident as to motive or end.
- (a.) Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
- (n.) A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
- (n.) One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
- (n.) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.
- (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
- (n.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
Compare eccentric with other words:
eccentric vs. peculiar
eccentric vs. nutty
eccentric vs. oddly
concentricity vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. hobbyhorsical
conformist vs. eccentric
conventional vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. extension
eccentric vs. wonder
eccentric vs. prime
eccentric vs. hysterical
eccentric vs. quirk
eccentric vs. queer
eccentric vs. irregular
eccentric vs. whimsical
eccentric vs. idiocentric
eccentric vs. squirrelly
eccentric vs. nutbag
eccentric vs. strange
capricious vs. eccentric
codger vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. wacko
eccentric vs. funky
eccentric vs. pixilated
eccentric vs. nutcase
eccentric vs. erratic
eccentric vs. quizzical
eccentric vs. idiosyncratic
crackpot vs. eccentric
deviant vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. uncanny
eccentric vs. negative
eccentric vs. weird
cranky vs. eccentric
balmy vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. nutter
eccentric vs. reciprocating
eccentric vs. motion
axis vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. wheel
disk vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. eccentricity
behave vs. eccentric
central vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. eccentrically
abnormal vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. excentrical
eccentric vs. eccentrical
eccentric vs. isometric
concentric vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. isotonic
eccentric vs. norm
eccentric vs. elliptical
eccentric vs. orbit
circular vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. perfectly
centre vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. excentric
eccentric vs. wacky
crazy vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. oddball
eccentric vs. original
comet vs. eccentric
absolute vs. eccentric
bizarre vs. eccentric
denotation vs. eccentric
connotation vs. eccentric
eccentric vs. singular
eccentric vs. odd
abaxial vs. eccentric