eccentricity in French
eccentricity in French is excentricité — eccentricity means unusual or odd behaviour, or the quality of being unusual.
eccentricity in French
excentricité
What does "eccentricity" mean?
- noun Unusual or odd behaviour, or the quality of being unusual.
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noun In geometry, a fixed value for a conic section, found by dividing a point's distance from the focus by 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."
- noun A measure of how much an orbit, such as a planet's path around the sun, differs from a perfect circle.
- noun The greatest distance between one vertex of a shape and any other.
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eccentricity in a sentence
- 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.
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What is "eccentricity" in French?
"eccentricity" in French is excentricité. eccentricity means: Unusual or odd behaviour, or the quality of being unusual.
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