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eccentric
/ɪkˈsɛntɹɪk/
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What does eccentric mean?
adjective
- Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
- Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
- Having a different center; not concentric.
More meanings (9)
adjective
- (figuratively) Of a person, deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
- Of a motion, against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
- (figuratively) Having different goals or motives.
- Having or being an oospore with a single large oil globule on one side that displaces much of the ooplasm and forces the ooplasts to one side.
noun
- One who does not behave like others.
- (slang) A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs.
- A circle not having the same centre as another.
- A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
- An exercise that goes against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪkˈsɛntɹɪk/
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If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
Mrs. Andrews’ only acquaintance with the word “genius” was derived from the colloquial fashion of calling any eccentric individual “a queer genius.”
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After a hard contest with that eccentric action of thought which had last perplexed him, he had got the better of it.
The oil pump has four pistons and two double valves driven from a single eccentric shaft on which are mounted four eccentrics.
If Izaak was so eccentric as to go to bed sober on that glorious twenty- ninth of May, I greatly misjudge him.