[{"word":"eccentricities","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"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."},{"definition":"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).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eccentricities","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eccentricity"]}]