Definition of Eccentric

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Eccentric

Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.

Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.

Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.

Not coincident as to motive or end.

Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.

A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.

One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.

In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.

A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.

A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.

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Eccentric Quotations

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
Jacques Derrida

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Anton Chekhov

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
Stephen Fry

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Marilyn Hacker

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
Maureen O'Hara

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
Maynard James Keenan

I have always idolized eccentric people.
Brandon Boyd

Eccentric Translations

eccentric in German is exzentrisch, exaltiert
eccentric in Swedish is originell, original

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