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concentricity (encz) | concentricity,soustředěnost n: Zdeněk Brožconcentricity,středovost n: Zdeněk Brož |
eccentricity (encz) | eccentricity,excentricita n: Zdeněk Brožeccentricity,nezvyklost n: Zdeněk Brožeccentricity,výstřednost n: Zdeněk Brožeccentricity,zvláštnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
anthropocentricity (gcide) | anthropocentricity \anthropocentricity\ n.
1. an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of
human values.
Syn: anthropocentrism.
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Concentricity (gcide) | Concentricity \Con`cen*tric"i*ty\, n.
The state of being concentric.
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Eccentricity (gcide) | Eccentricity \Ec`cen*tric"i*ty\, n.; pl. Eccentricities. [Cf.
F. excentricit['e].]
1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary
line of conduct; oddity.
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2. (Math.) The ratio of the distance between the center and
the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its
semi-transverse axis.
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3. (Astron.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the
orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round
which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the
orbit.
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4. (Mech.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as
of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the
throw.
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Excentricity (gcide) | Excentricity \Ex`cen*tric"i*ty\ (Math.)
Same as Eccentricity.
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anthropocentricity (wn) | anthropocentricity
n 1: an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of
human values [syn: anthropocentrism,
anthropocentricity] |
concentricity (wn) | concentricity
n 1: the quality of having the same center (as circles inside
one another) [ant: eccentricity] |
eccentricity (wn) | eccentricity
n 1: strange and unconventional behavior
2: (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"
3: a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a
circular path [ant: concentricity] |
eccentricity (devil) | ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ
it to accentuate their incapacity.
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