Eccentric vs. Idiocentric — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Eccentric and Idiocentric
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Eccentric
(of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange
He noted her eccentric appearance
Idiocentric
Characterized by or denoting interest centered upon oneself or one's own ways, rather than upon others or the ways of others; self-centered.
Eccentric
Not placed centrally or not having its axis or other part placed centrally
A servo driving an eccentric cam
Idiocentric
Deviating from the norm; eccentric.
Eccentric
A person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour
He's seen as a local eccentric
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Eccentric
A disc or wheel mounted eccentrically on a revolving shaft in order to transform rotation into backward-and-forward motion, e.g. a cam in an internal combustion engine.
Eccentric
Departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern.
Eccentric
Deviating from a circular form or path, as in an elliptical orbit.
Eccentric
Not having the same center
Eccentric circles.
Eccentric
Having the axis located elsewhere than at the geometric center.
Eccentric
One that deviates markedly from an established norm, especially a person of odd or unconventional behavior.
Eccentric
(Physics) A disk or wheel having its axis of revolution displaced from its center so that it is capable of imparting reciprocating motion.
Eccentric
Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
Eccentric
Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater.
Eccentric
Having a different center; not concentric.
Eccentric
(of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
Eccentric
Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
Eccentric
Having different goals or motives.
Eccentric
One who does not behave like others.
Eccentric
(slang) A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs.
Eccentric
(geometry) A circle not having the same centre as another.
Eccentric
(engineering) A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
Eccentric
(physiology) An exercise that goes against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle.
Eccentric
Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
Eccentric
Not having the same center; - said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; - opposed to concentric.
Eccentric
Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
Eccentric
Not coincident as to motive or end.
His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master.
Eccentric
Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze.
Eccentric
A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
Eccentric
One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
Eccentric
In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.
Eccentric
A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
Eccentric
A person with an unusual or odd personality
Eccentric
A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);
A real character
A strange character
A friendly eccentric
The capable type
A mental case
Eccentric
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
Restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit
Famed for his eccentric spelling
A freakish combination of styles
His off-the-wall antics
The outlandish clothes of teenagers
Outre and affected stage antics
Eccentric
Not having a common center; not concentric;
Eccentric circles
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