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  1. adjective Deviating from what is ordinary, usual, or expected; strange or peculiar: an odd name; odd behavior. See Synonyms at strange.
  2. adjective Being in excess of the indicated or approximate number, extent, or degree. Often used in combination: invited 30-odd guests.
  3. adjective Constituting a remainder: had some odd dollars left over.
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  • That part about having no contracts is odd, that is. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Feb. 2002
  • The building was full today -- odd, even for a press conference of this importance -- and he wondered if this presaged a blow-up on some issue he hadn't been concentrating on. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • If she thought that name odd, she didn't remark upon it. —  Garwood, Julie - The Gift
  • I've always found the series rather odd, which is exactly why it was perfect. —  Bookspotcentral
  • What struck me as kind of odd is the design of the device, which was very fantasy influenced —  Branded in the 80s!
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  1. Middle English odde, from Old Norse oddi, point of land, triangle, odd number.

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  1. from Middle English od, odde, odd, single, from Icelandic oddi, a triangle, a point of land, an odd number, orig. three, with reference to the triangle (cf. odda-tala, an odd number, odda-madhr, an odd man), from oddr (for *ordr), the point of a weapon, = Anglo-Saxon ord, a point, beginning: see ord.
 

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