eccentricity
偏心率,偏心,偏心度,偏心量
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plural ec·cen·tric·i·ties.
- : an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct: an interesting man, known for his eccentricities.
- : the quality of being eccentric.
- : the amount by which something is eccentric.
- : Machinery. the distance between the centers of two cylindrical objects one of which surrounds the other, as between an eccentric and the shaft on which it is mounted.
- : Mathematics. a constant expressed as the ratio of the distance from a point on a conic to a focus and the distance from the point to the directrix.
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The key piece of their analysis, published in a paper in October in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is “orbital eccentricity.”
Bach-Møller and Jørgensen started by gathering the full sample of exoplanets for which researchers have already measured or estimated orbital eccentricities.
Some people shrug these off as the eccentricities often associated with brilliance.
First, we quantified the egg shapes of more than 1,400 species by determining an egg’s eccentricity — how far it deviates from a sphere — and asymmetry.
Bond says that the discovery raises more questions that may ultimately help us understand the evolution of pufferfishes, a group already awash in eccentricities.
Undoubtedly, the enormous inherited fortunes of the aristocracy facilitated a certain eccentricity.
But Jenkins concedes that eccentricity is not what it once was.
Both his genius and his eccentricity are on full display in the Declaration of Independence.
“I adore them, I find them so hilarious, full of eccentricity, and full of faults,” she tells The Daily Beast in French.
The most interesting part of eccentricity may be just how wasteful it usually is.
Fashion—Do not be too submissive to the dictates of fashion; at the same time avoid oddity or eccentricity in your dress.
He was a man of great learning and , and devoted his long life to laborious study.