ECCENTRICITIES

14 letters 20 Scrabble points

Definition of ECCENTRICITIES

noun

  1. The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.

  2. The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.

    "For an ellipse, the eccentricity is the ratio of the distance from the center to a focus divided by the length of the semi-major axis."

  3. The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters E C C E N T R I C I T I E S
Length 14 letters
Scrabble Score 20 points