eccentricity

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eccentric +‎ -ity

Noun

eccentricity (plural eccentricities)

1. The quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour.
2. (mathematics) The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix

   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.

Translations

the quality of being eccentric

• Bulgarian: ексцентричност (bg) f (ekscentričnost)
• Czech: výstřednost (cs) f
• French: excentricité (fr) f
• Greek: εκκεντρικότητα (el) (ekkentrikótita) m 

• Portuguese: excentricidade (pt) f
• Russian: эксцентри́чность (ru) (ekscentríčnost') f 
• Swedish: excentricitet (sv) c

eccentric behaviour

• Bulgarian: ексцентричност (bg) f (ekscentričnost)
• French: excentricité (fr) f
• Greek: εκκεντρικότητα (el) (ekkentrikótita) m 

• Portuguese: excentricidade (pt) f
• Swedish: excentricitet (sv) c

a ratio between distances in a conic section

• Dutch: excentriciteit (nl) f
• French: excentricité (fr) f
• German: Exzentrizität (de) f
• Hungarian: excentricitás (hu)

• Polish: ekscentryczność (pl) f, mimośród (pl) m
• Russian: эксцентрисите́т (ru) (ekscentrisitét) m 
• Swedish: excentricitet (sv) c