eccentric
adjective
deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd.
excentric
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a variation of
eccentric.
Example Sentences
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P. 4-9 cm. compact, convex then exp. irreg. glabrous, pelliculose, rusty; g. fixed to a collar, colour of p.; s. excentric or lateral, incurved, glabrous, whitish; sp. subg.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Was it always decreasing? and if so, how far back was it so excentric that at perihelion the earth passed quite near the sun?
From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge
I have seen a case in which the squinting eye possessed a visual acuteness of 5/36 together with excentric fixation and nystagmus; however, I attach no value to isolated cases.
From Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger by C. Schweigger
P. 1-1.5 cm. resupinate, then reflexed, tomentose, white, attached by a very short incurved downy stem which disappears when the pileus turns over; g. radiating from an excentric point, distant, white then pink; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
It was distant 2·67, like Ceres, and was a little smaller, but it had a very excentric orbit: its plane being tilted 34½°, an extraordinary inclination.
From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge
