- Look up eccentric or
eccentricity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Eccentricity or
eccentric may
refer to:
Eccentricity (behavior), odd
behavior on...
- In astrodynamics, the
orbital eccentricity of an
astronomical object is a
dimensionless parameter that
determines the
amount by
which its
orbit around...
- mathematics, the
eccentricity of a
conic section is a non-negative real
number that
uniquely characterizes its shape. One can
think of the
eccentricity as a measure...
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Eccentricity (also
called quirkiness) is an
unusual or odd
behavior on the part of an individual. This
behavior would typically be
perceived as unusual...
- In
celestial mechanics, the
eccentricity vector of a
Kepler orbit is the
dimensionless vector with
direction pointing from
apoapsis to
periapsis and with...
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Angular eccentricity is one of many
parameters which arise in the
study of the
ellipse or ellipsoid. It is
denoted here by α (alpha). It may be defined...
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Horizontal eccentricity refers to the
horizontal axis,
measured in degrees,
along the
visual field. The
blind spot
extends from an
eccentricity d1 to eccentricity...
- The
eccentricity effect is a
visual phenomenon that
affects visual search. As
retinal eccentricity increases (i.e. the
light of the
image enters the eye...
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Milutin Milanković. In the 1920s, he
hypothesized that
variations in
eccentricity,
axial tilt, and
precession combined to
result in
cyclical variations...
- an
ellipse is
related to the semi-minor axis's
length b
through the
eccentricity e and the semi-latus **** ℓ {\displaystyle \ell } , as follows: b =...
