ECCENTRICITIES — 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: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eccentricities
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