Inside the Universes

Words with a similar base: eccentricity

'eccentricity'

[eccentricity.n.01] as in: strange and unconventional behavior

'eccentricity'

[eccentricity.n.02] as in: (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

Examples:
a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity

'eccentricity'

[eccentricity.n.03] as in: a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path

Origins

					eccentricity (English)
├── -ity (English)
│   └── -ité (French)
│       └── -ité (Middle French (ca. 1400-1600))
│           └── -ete (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
└── eccentric (English)
    └── eccentricus (Latin)
        └── ἔκκεντρος (Ancient Greek (to 1453))