(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.
Outlandish
Definition:
(a.) Foreign; not native.
(a.) Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not outlandish to ask whether different central governments have deliberately promoted development elsewhere.
(2) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(3) Likewise, Brynjolfsson doesn’t find the idea of machine-generated populist luxury outlandish.
(4) Alfred McTear's objections are not as outlandish as they might seem.
(5) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
(6) Donald Trump has made his outlandish policy of forcing Mexico to pay for his giant wall the centerpiece of his campaign,” said Podesta.
(7) For environmentalists his mining activities are no less outlandish.
(8) An 8% interest rate is not outlandish; the fact it strikes us as so is a measure of how addicted we are to cheap credit.
(9) "Consumers are beginning to realise that this technology isn't an outlandish, futurist concept coming to life from The Jetsons but in fact can be used efficiently and effectively to solve everyday problems," says Alex Hawkinson, CEO of home automation company SmartThings.
(10) As Perry has got older, Claire’s outfits have become increasingly outlandish (he has called her Bo Peep look the “crack cocaine of femininity”).
(11) You get these music videos the kids love, where it’s completely outlandish, luxury everywhere.
(12) Natasha and the other women say that Gary talks of the Raëlian philosophy of sexual freedom, but absolutely deny that the treatment has been used as an attempt to convert them to the outlandish religion.
(13) The only person dressed more outlandishly than Ross and he foolishly hugs her like an adolescent.
(14) Anything was considered, no matter how outlandish.” A former caterer, O’Regan had a long string of innovations behind him, including the establishment of the world’s first duty free shop at the Shannon airport in 1947 after the Irish parliament passed a new law , the Customs Free Act, which exempted transit and embarking passengers, goods and aircraft from normal customs procedures.
(15) The positive case for remaining in the EU will also be made by the Scottish National party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond , on Monday, when he will condemn the warnings about the risks of Brexit as, “at best puerile and at worst outlandish scaremongering”.
(16) When his deal to buy Leeds was confirmed, he invited journalists to his lawyers’ office in London, regaling the assembled crowd with outlandish tales of pot-washing in 1970s England and sincerely inviting a reporter to play with his rock band in Sardinia.
(17) Presented with Trump’s statement that he would go beyond waterboarding, Burr simply replied: “I would not support bringing back waterboarding.” Senator Jeff Sessions, a Trump surrogate who sits on the Senate armed services committee, sought to downplay some of the billionaire’s more outlandish comments on torture and targeting the families of terrorists.
(18) He is in many ways a fascinating player all round: a beautifully balanced two-footed playmaker who is at the same time not particularly athletic, not particularly quick, not particularly strong, not blessed with disorienting charisma or given to outlandish moments of extraordinary skill.
(19) The fancy is so outlandish, yet the unsettling instinct hidden in the luxuriance of the poison garden so resolutely explored, it is no wonder that, on reading this and other of his tales after his father had died in 1864, Julian Hawthorne wrote that he was "unable to comprehend how a man such as I knew my father to have been could have written such books".
(20) Trump has been tabloid fodder for decades, for a colorful personal life, a propensity for outlandish statements and, of course, his hair.