Eccentricity
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Eccentricity or eccentric may refer to:
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- Eccentricity (behavior)Eccentricity (behavior)In popular usage, eccentricity refers to unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual. This behavior would typically be perceived as unusual or unnecessary, without being demonstrably maladaptive...
, odd behavior on the part of a person, as opposed to being "normal" - Eccentricity (graph theory) of a vertex in a graph
- Eccentricity (mathematics)Eccentricity (mathematics)In mathematics, the eccentricity, denoted e or \varepsilon, is a parameter associated with every conic section. It can be thought of as a measure of how much the conic section deviates from being circular.In particular,...
, a parameter associated with every conic section - Eccentric (mechanism)Eccentric (mechanism)In mechanical engineering, an eccentric is a circular disk solidly fixed to a rotating axle with its centre offset from that of the axle ....
, a wheel that rotates on an axle that is displaced from the focus of the circle described by the wheel - Eccentricity vectorEccentricity vectorIn astrodynamics, the eccentricity vector of a Kepler orbit is the vector pointing towards the periapsis having a magnitude equal to the orbit's scalar eccentricity. The magnitude is unitless. For Kepler orbits the eccentricity vector is a constant of motion...
- Horizontal eccentricityHorizontal eccentricityHorizontal Eccentricity refers to the horizontal axis, measured in degrees, along the visual field. The blind spot extends from an eccentricity d1 to eccentricity d2 in temporal direction from the fovea. The size of the blind spot can be calculated as ArcTan - ArcTan .-External links:*...
, in vision, degrees of visual angle from the center of the eye - Orbital eccentricityOrbital eccentricityThe orbital eccentricity of an astronomical body is the amount by which its orbit deviates from a perfect circle, where 0 is perfectly circular, and 1.0 is a parabola, and no longer a closed orbit...
, in astrodynamics, calculated from orbital state vectors as an absolute value of eccentricity vector or using other methods based on orbital energy and angular momentum - Eccentric anomalyEccentric anomalyIn celestial mechanics, the eccentric anomaly is an angular parameter that defines the position of a body that is moving along an elliptic Kepler orbit.For the point P orbiting around an ellipse, the eccentric anomaly is the angle E in the figure...
, the angle between the direction of periapsis and the current position of an object on its orbit - Eccentric ClubEccentric ClubThe Eccentric Club was the name of several London gentlemen's clubs, the best-known of which existed between 1890 and 1986. For much of its history it was based at 9–11 Ryder Street, St James's.-First Eccentric Club:...
, a London gentlemen's club - Eccentric contraction, the lengthening of muscle fibers
- Eccentric, in astronomy, a type of deferent, a circle or sphere used in obsolete astronomical systems to carry a planet around the Earth or Sun
- Eccentric position of a surveyingSurveyingSee Also: Public Land Survey SystemSurveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them...
tripod to be able to measure hidden points - Eccentric TrainingEccentric TrainingEccentric training is the lowering phase of an exercise. For example, in a biceps curl the action of lowering the dumbbell back down from the lift is the eccentric phase of that exercise — as long as the dumbbell is lowered slowly rather than letting it drop....
See also
- Acentric factorAcentric factorThe acentric factor \omega is a conceptual number introduced by Pitzer in 1955, proven to be very useful in the description of matter. It has become a standard for the phase characterization of single & pure components...
, in thermodynamics, the measure of the non-sphericity (acentricity) of molecules - Acentric fragmentAcentric fragmentAn acentric fragment is a segment of a chromosome that lacks a centromere. Because the centromere is the point of attachment for the mitotic apparatus, acentric fragments are not evenly distributed to the daughter cells in cell division...
, in genetics