Business / Machine Shop / Eccentric: A circle not having a geometric center. Also, a device such as a crankshaft or a cam for converting rotary motion to reciprocating motion.
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Eccentric Adjective Synonyms: unconventional, unusual, uncommon, idiosyncratic, anomalous, unorthodox, out of the ordinary, irregular, atypical, incongruous, errant, aberrant, exceptional, individual, singular, unique, abnormal, odd, peculiar, strange, curious, bizarre, outlandish
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Science / Tides and Currents / Eccentricity Of Orbit: Ratio of the distance from the center to the focus of an elliptical orbit to the length of the semi major axis. The eccentricity of orbit = %1 - (B / A)2: where A and B are respectively the semi major MORE
Health / Fitness / Eccentric Contraction: Muscle lengthens while maintaining tension. MORE
Health / Fitness / Eccentric Muscle Action: When the muscle lengthens while the contracting against resistance. MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Residual Schizophrenia: Blunted or inappropriate affect, social withdrawal, eccentric behavior, loose associations without prominent psychotic symptoms. MORE
Science / Tides and Currents / Evection: A perturbation of the Moon depending upon the alternate increase and decrease of the eccentricity of its orbit, which is always a maximum when the Sun is passing the Moon's line of apsides and a minim MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Catachresis: (Grk. 'misuse') A completely impossible figure of speech or an implied metaphor that results from combining other extreme figures of speech such as anthimeria, hyperbole, synaesthesia, and metonymy. T MORE