eccentricity
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
strange and unconventional behavior
Types & categories
- unfamiliarity hypernym
- oddity hyponym
Related & opposite
- eccentric derivation
Sense 2 noun
(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
Types & categories
- ratio hypernym
Related & opposite
- nonconcentric derivation
- geometry domain topic
Sense 3 noun
a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path
Types & categories
- circularity hypernym
Related & opposite
- concentricity antonym
- nonconcentric derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | eccentric |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | unfamiliarity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | oddity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nonconcentric |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | geometry |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ratio |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | concentricity |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | nonconcentric |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | circularity |