(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(2) Adaptation at 10 deg eccentricity yielded slightly higher threshold elevations than for central vision.
(3) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
(4) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
(5) These data suggest that older adults experience greater muscle damage following eccentric exercise than young subjects, which may be due in part to the smaller muscle mass and lower VO2max seen in older men.
(6) Detection thresholds at 10 Hz and high grating contrasts were approximately 11-15 arcsec in the fovea and 37-47 arcsec at 30 degrees eccentricity.
(7) It could be said that Brown's methods were not eccentric but merely attuned to the demands of Eighties and Nineties culture.
(8) That detail is inspired by the eccentric Mancunian performer Frank Sidebottom – the film is co-written by the Guardian's Jon Ronson , a former member of Sidebottom's band – but Abrahamson insists the character stands in for all music's outsiders.
(9) The relationships between dioptric blur, pupil size, retinal eccentricity, and retinal sensitivity were investigated in the central 5 degrees of the visual field in 10 normal subjects using the Humphrey Field Analyzer.
(10) Some say Film Socialism is an eccentric masterpiece ; others that it's an eccentric mess.
(11) The neoplastic cells have large, single eccentric nucleus, resembling typical plasma cells.
(12) Our threshold vs ISI data can be adequately modeled on the basis of an intrinsic positional uncertainty, which increases with eccentricity, and additive and multiplicative sources of noise.
(13) The latter 7 cases had either a dislocation or an eccentration.
(14) The term Asperger's Syndrome (AS) refers to a clinical picture characterized by social isolation in combination with odd and eccentric behaviour.
(15) With calcium antagonists, a similar extent of dilation of normal coronary arteries and eccentric stenoses can be obtained.
(16) The size and the angular tilt of the dark crescent appearing in the subject's pupil are derived as a function of five variables: the ametropia of the eye (Dsph, Dcyl, axis), the eccentricity of the flash, e, and the distance of the camera from the subject's eye, dc.
(17) Eccentric catheter location had little effect on phantom or human arterial lumen shape or area when imaging was performed with optimized catheters.
(18) Accommodative microfluctuations were found to play a minor role in determining the magnitude of sensitivity out to an eccentricity of 5 degrees; between 5 degrees and 27.5 degrees, the effect of microfluctuations was masked by the mydriasis produced by the drugs used in the study.
(19) A sport-specific profile of eccentric and concentric enlargement has been documented in endurance and resistance athletes, respectively.
(20) Although containing no obviously extreme items, its cumulative effect may be used to assess the prevalence of bizarre and eccentric thought patterns in psychiatric patients, and as an estimate of psychotic risk in the general population.
Funky
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
Example Sentences:
(1) While others chose the rather more funky hotspot Kreuzberg, "Bowie was more at home" there, says Claudia Skoda , a fashion designer friend.
(2) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(3) Right on the beach is this traditional, yet funky, taverna run by Nikos and the talented Magdna.
(4) Yes, but given how much we like spectacle of others suffering, that might only be a matter of time – hangings downloadable to your funky new Google glasses .
(5) Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives And there are two full-sized live-music venues: a vast, hangar-like space that also features a food concession – form an orderly queue for Funky House Party In Your Mouth Cheesecake ($4) – and a smaller room decked out to look like a nightclub.
(6) There is an increasing number of boutique hotels – I spent a night at the super-stylish Estalagem in nearby Ponta do Sol, which has recently opened a cheaper, funky sister property, Hotel da Vila .
(7) When I was nine, Walk On The Wild Side was number 10 in the charts, and there had never been a record so languid and funky and cool and sexy.
(8) Touring with them, and more recently with the Dead Weather, where he is not the guitarist but the drummer (and a powerfully funky one, too), the challenge is to succeed with that band, on its own terms.
(9) The short stories are published by the Connemara-based Doire Press publishing house Where to stay The House Hotel is a rather fancy boutique-style hotel with funky furniture, helpful staff and a late bar.
(10) This is not your average dorm-style accommodation: there’s a funky-cool aesthetic throughout the bedrooms, shared baths, and common areas, which include a patio bar and screening room.
(11) He is just so eminently castable – classically trained, poised, yet with a hint of offbeat funkiness and with the most luxurious voice since Richard Burton.
(12) Y’all don’t look like press to me,” adeadpan Prince announced at the start of a set largely composed of new material but also including a cover of Play That Funky Music and a version of his song I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.
(13) The track I’d play to show off my eclectic tastes Front 242: Headhunter Facebook Twitter Pinterest In Chicago we have a lot of clubs that play industrial and punk music that I find funky and soulful.
(14) Click here to watch Major Lazer perfomring at the Reading branch of the festival With the event clearly no longer the bastion of male guitar rock, female musicians are a big hit this year with Haim 's funky LA party jams proving the perfect soundtrack for the end of summer.
(15) That’s a dog.” I tell him about my quest: a search for the perfect funky small American town, a place with a buzzing homespun coffee shop and a great little deli, a town with some youthful exuberance and a shared passion for the great outdoors – plus, of course, friendly bookshops such as his.
(16) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
(17) • Six-person cabin from £143 a night mjoeyri.is DENMARK Birkedal, Møn Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fun, funky and – if filled to capacity – affordable, this eye-catching home is formed of nine cylinders fused to form a three-bedroom villa for six.
(18) They are in white; West Germany are in their funky epilepsy-inducing green away kit.
(19) I walked across People's Square, Shanghai's municipal hub, with its modern Grand Theatre, whose transparent plastic walls and sweeping concave roof give it the appearance of a giant funky ashtray, and the Shanghai Museum, shaped like a saucepan complete with handle on the top.
(20) Stephen Drew, Will Middlebrooks and Jacoby Ellsbury will bat next as the Sox look to snap out of their funky mess of a slump.