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How to pronounce “eccentric”

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Pronunciation guide for eccentric

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of eccentric with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Breaking the Mold: Lessons from Icons and Eccentricsthat you've published around the 16 eccentric portraits.
Definition summary: Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.

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Breaking the Mold: Lessons from Icons and Eccentrics

that you've published around the 16 eccentric portraits.

[Adjective]
Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
Having a different center; not concentric.
(of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
(physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
Having different goals or motives.
(mycology) Having or being an oospore with a single large oil globule on one side that displaces much of the ooplasm and forces the ooplasts to one side.
[Noun]
One who does not behave like others.
(slang) A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs.
(geometry, astronomy) A circle not having the same centre as another.
(engineering) A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
(physiology) An exercise that goes against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle.