What does «excentricidad» mean in Spanish?
- Rarity, extravagance.
Examples of use in Spanish: "la excentricidad de ese hombre asombra incluso hasta su familia".
"tener pelo azulado es una de sus múltiples excentricidades".
"definir qué es excentricidad y qué no es, no suele ser muy claro, debido a que se origina en ideas subjetivas y culturales".
- State of that which is far from its center.
Examples of use in Spanish: "la excentricidad de estos barrios impide que llegue el transporte público como es debido".
- A parameter that determines the degree of deviation of a conic section with respect to a circumference. Its symbol is ε (epsilon). It is an important parameter in the definition of the ellipse, parabola and hyperbola. The eccentricity of a conic is always a positive constant (ε) and is the ratio between the distance of the points of the conic to a point (focus) and a fixed line (directrix).