eccentricità — meaning in English
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English meaning
- eccentricity noun The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
- folly noun A foolish act or belief, especially one with serious or costly consequences.
Senses
eccentricità is used for these senses in English:
- folly (architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
eccentricity — full definition
- noun The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
- noun The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
- noun 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).
- noun The farthest distance from a vertex to any other vertex.
folly — full definition
- noun A foolish act or belief, especially one with serious or costly consequences.
- noun An elaborate, purely decorative building constructed for visual effect rather than practical use.