How to use eccentricity in a sentence

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• As a regular news reader I thought I was across the eccentricities of the US president.2019 September 20, Lenore Taylor, The Guardian. From the entry across
• A great deal of eccentricity was expressed through the trend for ruin follies.2018 April 18, Paul Cooper, “Europe Was Once Obsessed With Fake Dilapidated Buildings”, in The Atlantic. From the entry folly
• This glossary, however, is more of an index than an explanation of her vocabularial eccentricities.1923 October, “Turner, Julia. The Psychology of Self-Consciousness. […]”, in Smith Ely Jelliffe, editor, The Journal of Nervous and Mental…. From the entry vocabularial
• Doctorow never succeeds in making the brothers’ transition from mild eccentricity to out-and-out madness understandable to the reader.2009 September 1, Michiko Kakutani, “How Did They End Up That Way?”, in New York Times. From the entry overcluttered
• Also be-toppered was Rahsaan Rolkand Kirk, whose eccentricity in instrument choice and performing style spread over into how he dressed.2008, Jazz Journal International, page 2. From the entry be-toppered
• The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.1928, Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145. From the entry latrate
• It turns out that the ultimate Moons are becoming increasingly rare, due to the reduction in the eccentricity of the terrestrial orbit.2021 December 21, Paris Observatory, retrieved 20 Jun 2024. From the entry proxigees
• From neuropsychological research, we knowthat the traumatized brain houses inscrutable eccentricities that cause it to overreact—or, more precisely,misreact—to the current realities of life.2007, Martha Stout, The Paranoia Switch. From the entry misreact
• Inherent electrical errors, which consist of conformity and interaxis errors, result from rotor and stator ellipticity and eccentricity, and imperfect winding and flux distribution.1985, Harold A. Rothbart, Mechanical Design and Systems Handbook, page 41-11. From the entry interaxis
• Khedron was the only other person in the city who could be called eccentric—and even his eccentricity had been planned by the designers of Diaspar.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, published 2012, unnumbered page. From the entry eccentric
• The concentration of more central tumors progressed by age quartiles in a roughly circumfoveal trajectory from superotemporal to inferotemporal to inferonasal to nasal meridian, with an increasing average eccentricity.2015 August 1, “Spatiotemporal Patterns of Tumor Occurrence in Children with Intraocular Retinoblastoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry circumfoveal
• In one way the book is a straightforward defence of eccentricity, a plea for the importance of valuing individuals who choose to dance to a different tune.2011, Scott Lyall, Margery Palmer McCulloch, The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry dance to a different tune
• Despite film showing the two men creating highly complex crop circles, the momentum behind cerealogy was too strong to be stopped by any admission of English eccentricity.2002 August 12, “Cereal offenders who won't go away”, in Christian Science Monitor. From the entry cerealogy
• From the smoothest symphonic dance pieces to the most highly seasoned jazzical eccentricities runs the range; there is a spiced variety of good things for every taste.1995, Mark Tucker, The Duke Ellington Reader, page 34. From the entry jazzical

Meaning of eccentricity

1. noun The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
2. noun The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
3. noun The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).

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Questions about eccentricity in a sentence

How do you use eccentricity in a sentence?

Eccentricity is used as a noun. For example: “For an ellipse, the eccentricity is the ratio of the distance from the center to a focus divided by the length of the semi-major axis.”

What is a short sentence with eccentricity?

“A great deal of eccentricity was expressed through the trend for ruin follies.”

What does eccentricity mean?

Eccentricity means the quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.