eccentricity
英 [,eksen'trɪsɪtɪ]
美[,ɛksɛn'trɪsəti]
- n. 古怪；怪癖；[数] 离心率
英英释意
- 1. strange and unconventional behavior
- 2. (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis;
- "a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity"
- 3. a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path