excentric

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Our planet may be supposed to have rendered its orbit less excentric, and thereby more habitable, by planning a long series of explosions, analogous to those from which, according to the best hypotheses, comets proceed.

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  • He found it best to assume the centre of distance half-way between the centre of the earth and the excentric, thus “bisecting the excentricity”. —  Kepler
  • Excentric: As an alternative to epicycles, planets whose motion round the earth was not uniform could be represented as moving round a point some distance from the earth called the excentric. —  Kepler
  • The only exception was last night where we stayed in the most excentric B&B I've ever seen! —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Not to think it's silly, or excentric, but to simply find out what it is and do it. —  LKH Blog
  • The only difference being, those cast-offs and misfits were able to set aside their excentric quirks and individual agendas enough to play together and win games. —  MVN
 

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