excentric

From ex- +‎ -centric.

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈsɛn.tɹɪk/
• Homophone: eccentric
• Rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk

excentric (comparative more excentric, superlative most excentric)

1. Alternative form of eccentric
2. (botany) One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center.

   excentric nucleus

   excentric stalk

   excentric extremities

excentric (plural excentrics)

1. Alternative form of eccentric (disk or wheel with off-centre axis)

The Oxford Languages dictionary only provides the biological sense and states that “excentric is sometimes confused with eccentric”.

• “excentric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French excentrique.

excentric m or n (feminine singular excentrică, masculine plural excentrici, feminine and neuter plural excentrice)

1. eccentric, oddball

• excentricitate