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ECCENTRIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
Example:
a mental case
Synonyms:
case; character; eccentric; type
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("eccentric" is a kind of...):
adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person with an unusual or odd personality
Synonyms:
eccentric; eccentric person; flake; geek; oddball
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("eccentric" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eccentric"):
crackpot; crank; fruitcake; nut; nut case; screwball (a whimsically eccentric person)
nutter; wacko; whacko (a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having a common center; not concentric
Example:
eccentric circles
Synonyms:
eccentric; nonconcentric
Classified under:
Similar:
acentric (not centered or having no center)
off-center; off-centered (situated away from the center or axis)
Antonym:
concentric (having a common center)
Derivation:
eccentricity (a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path)
eccentricity ((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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
Example:
outre and affected stage antics
Synonyms:
bizarre; eccentric; flakey; flaky; freakish; freaky; gonzo; off-the-wall; outlandish; outre
Classified under:
Similar:
unconventional (not conventional or conformist)
Derivation:
eccentricity (strange and unconventional behavior)
Context examples:
It is composed of cells with a large eccentric nucleus, prominent nucleolus, and abundant cytoplasm.
(Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor, NCI Thesaurus)
These offerings of affection were of a most various and eccentric description.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Indeed, from the direction of the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A pathologic astrocyte in which the cell body swells and contains glial filaments and an eccentric nucleus; seen particularly in demyelinating and neoplastic conditions.
(Gemistocytic Neoplastic Astrocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
A neoplastic gemistocytic astrocyte characterized by a diminutive size, a single, eccentric nucleus, and a cytoplasmic droplet of eosinophilic material.
(Mini-Gemistocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
The first was a will, drawn in the same eccentric terms as the one which he had returned six months before, to serve as a testament in case of death and as a deed of gift in case of disappearance; but in place of the name of Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement read the name of Gabriel John Utterson.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
If you remove planet nine from the model and instead allow for lots of small objects scattered across a wide area, collective attractions between those objects could just as easily account for the eccentric orbits we see in some TNOs, said Antranik Sefilian, who is a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a member of Darwin College.
(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)
There was nothing of presumption or folly in Bingley that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into silence; and he was more communicative, and less eccentric, than the other had ever seen him.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He was a type and leader of a strange breed of men which has vanished away from England—the full-blooded, virile buck, exquisite in his dress, narrow in his thoughts, coarse in his amusements, and eccentric in his habits.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Tubular (10-20 mm length) or eccentric or moderate tortuosity of proximal segment or moderately angulated segment, 45-90 degrees or irregular contour or moderate to heavy calcification or ostial in location or bifurcation lesions requiring double guidewires or some thrombus present or total occlusion less than 3 months old.
(American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Lesion Complexity Score B, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
