eccentric

eksentrinen

eksentrikko, outo tyyppi

epäkeskinen Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
2011, Michael Laver, Ernest Sergenti. Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eDTAQ5VFE1IC&pg=PA125&dq=%22more%7Cmost+eccentric%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iuGnU_2RC4fgkAWYnYGwDA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22more%7Cmost%20eccentric%22&f=false page 125,

Strikingly, we see that party births tend systematically to be at policy positions that are significantly more eccentric than those of surviving parties, whatever decision rule these parties use.

As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereids mean eccentricity is greater.''

He was a man of a most eccentric turn of mind, and great singularity of conduct.

Such is not the case with Mr. Martin Van Butchell, one of the most eccentric characters to be found in the British metropolis, and a gentleman of indisputable science and abilities, but whose strange humors and extraordinary habits, have rather tended to obscure than to display the talents he possessed.

Khedron was the only other person in the city who could be called eccentric—and even his eccentricity had been planned by the designers of Diaspar.

(..)for whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands he crooketh them to his own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master or state:(..).

Eccentrics live longer, happier, and healthier lives than conformist normal citizens, according to the neuropsychologist David Weeks.

The position of the eccentrics which is necessary to make the pistons drive the engine forward must be directly the reverse of that which would cause them to drive the engine backwards. To be able, therefore, to reverse the motion of the engine, it would only be necessary to be able to reverse the position of the eccentrics, which may be accomplished by either of two expedients.

Clavius goes on to use the large number of orbs in Fracostoro's theory as another reason to prefer the Ptolemaic system, then couples this issue with that of the relative capacity of the theories to save the phenomena, then finally reiterates the lack (as he sees it) of conflict between the Aristotelian natural philosophy and the eccentrics and epicycles of mathematical astronomy.

The discussion that revolved around the admissibility of eccentrics and epicycles lied(si) at the core of this theoretical discussion, and those who would not allow such concepts took the position that such eccentrics and epicycles would then introduce a center of heaviness, other than the Earth, around which celestial simple objects would then move.