(n.) The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
(n.) The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.
(n.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.
(n.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the 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.
Weirdness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being weird.
Example Sentences:
(1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(2) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
(3) They were ravaged by injuries at that point, although Park and Rafael in the centre was weird.
(4) It is still weird that "arts and crafts" is in the same category as dolls.
(5) In Niki Savva’s book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, Credlin has even been compared to Wallis Simpson, a deeply weird analogy.
(6) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
(7) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(8) As Alice Ross of the FT points out: Alice Ross (@aliceemross) Weird that Hollande is talking about an exchange rate that matches "true state" of ezone economy.
(9) I don't have any weirdness about it, or any of them."
(10) Weirdly, the muffled Doppler effects of several thousand passing SUVs was quite soothing.
(11) "Brr, that was weird, but we were cheeky little kids.
(12) As the weirdly brilliant TV show Fashion Police – hosted by the late, great Joan Rivers, who, along with various randoms, passed judgment on clothes worn by celebrities that week – demonstrated, people have different takes on clothes.
(13) "If viewers think something is false or weird, that's when they reject it," says Gary Knight, commercial content director at ITV.
(14) Are the 'Set Piece' binders to stay like we are playing a weird version of American Football?'
(15) Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Marché du Film, the world's biggest movie market.
(16) They occupy that weird middle ground between anonymity and celebrity; they're from well-regarded restaurants, but they're not at the level where, say, James Martin can be obnoxious at them on Saturday Kitchen.
(17) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
(18) I know some people will think it's weird to be so organised but I did it last year for the first time, and I found it very relaxing to know I had everything wrapped up by the end of November.
(19) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
(20) Away from the violence and the weirdness, Korea supports a healthy contingent of award-winning auteurs, like Hong Sang-soo , Im Sang-soo or Lee Chang-dong.