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"ref": "2011, Michael Laver, Ernest Sergenti., Party Competition: An Agent-Based Model, page 125",
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"sense": "not at or in the centre",
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"text": "As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater."
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"text": "1801, Author not named, Fyfield (John), entry in Eccentric Biography; Or, Sketches of Remarkable Characters, Ancient and Modern, page 127,\nHe was a man of a most eccentric turn of mind, and great singularity of conduct."
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"ref": "1807, G. H. Wilson, editor, The Eccentric Mirror, volume 3, page 17",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, published 2012, unnumbered page",
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "person who does not behave like others",
"word": "zibidi"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ekscéntrik",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ексце́нтрик"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "excentriek"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kolderschijf"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"word": "epäkesko"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Exzenter"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"word": "excenter"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "ékssentrik",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"word": "эксцентрик"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ekscentryk"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mimośród"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ekscéntrik",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "эксце́нтрик"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ексцентрик"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ekscentrik"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "off-centre wheel",
"word": "luwastungain"
}
],
"word": "eccentric"
}
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