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Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary | 1986 | Copyright

206. Eccentricity

Addams Family weird family, presented in grotesque domesticity. [TV: Terrace, I, 29]
Boynton, Nanny travels with set of Encyclopaedia Britannica to settle disputes. [Am. Lit.: “Percy” in Stories, 634–644]
Dick, Mr. odd but harmless old gentleman. [Br. Lit.: David Copperfield]
Doolittle, Doctor veterinarian who talks to animals. [Children’s Lit.: Dr. Doolittle ]
Flite, Miss “ancient” ward in Chancery. [Br. Lit.: Bleak House ]
Great-Aunt Dymphna outlandish dresser who pointedly doesn’t eat meat. [Children’s Lit.: The Growing Summer, Fisher 124–127]
Havisham, Miss jilted bride turns into witchlike old woman. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations ]
Longstocking, Pippi outrageous, rebellious, imaginative child. [Children’s Lit.: Pippi Longstocking ]
Madeline individualist; only girl “out of line.” [Children’s Lit.: Madeline, Fisher, 196]
Madwoman of Chaillot delightfully pixilated old woman manages to exploit the Parisian exploiters. [Fr. Lit.: The Madwoman of Chaillot, Benét, 618]
Pickwick, Mr. (Samuel) jolly “conformist” who understands anything but the obvious. [Br. Lit.: Pickwick Papers ]
Poppins, Mary English nanny who practises levitation, flies up chimneys, etc. [Children’s Lit.: Mary Poppins, Fisher, 218]
Salus, St. Simeon behaved queerly to share outcasts’ contempt. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 311]

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eccentricity

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

eccentricity (symbol e) A measure of the shape of an orbit, or how far it diverges from a circle. If e = 0, the orbit is a perfect circle. If e is less than 1 the orbit is an ellipse, and the nearer e is to 1, the more elongated the ellipse. If e = 1 exactly, the orbit is a parabola, and if e is greater than 1 the orbit is a hyperbola. The orbits of the planets and major satellites are ellipses of small eccentricity. Eccentricity is one of the elements of an orbit (see Elements, Orbital).

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eccentricity

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

eccentricity (symbol e) One of the elements of an orbit. It indicates how much an elliptical orbit departs from a circle. It is found by dividing the distance between the two foci of the ellipse by the length of the major axis. A circle has an eccentricity of 0, a parabola an eccentricity of 1.

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eccentricity

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

eccentricity in astronomy: see orbit .

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