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• ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)  , literally " out from the centre," and thus used to connote generally any deviation from the normal . In See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy the word denotes a circle See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round which a See also:

• BODY

body revolves, but whose centre is displaced from the visible centre of See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion . In the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient astronomy the ellipses in which it is now known that the See also:

• PLANETS, MINOR

planets revolve around the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun could not be distinguished from circles, but the unequal angular motion due to See also:

• ELLIPTICITY

ellipticity was observed . The theory of the See also:

• ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric was that the centre of the See also:

• EPICYCLE (Gr. upon, and KuKXos, circle)

epicycle of each See also:

• PLANET (Gr. ssXavirrns, a wanderer)

planet moved uniformly in a circle, the centre of which was displaced from that of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth by an amount See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double the eccentricity of the actual See also:

• ELLIPSE (adapted from Gr. EXkei 'tc, a deficiency, iXXeirely, to fall behind)

ellipse, as the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case is now understood . When measured around this imaginary centre, which is so situated on the See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major See also:

• AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

axis of the ellipse that the See also:

• FOCUS (Latin for " hearth " or " fireplace ")

focus, or See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of the real sun, is midway between it and the centre of the ellipse, the motion is approximately See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform . In See also:

• ENGINEERING

engineering, an eccentric is a See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical See also:

• DEVICE

device for converting rotary into reciprocating motion (see See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

STEAM-See also:

• ENGINE
• ENGINE (Lat. ingenium)

ENGINE) . For eccentric See also:

• ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle see ELLIPSE .