| Property | Value |
|---|
| rdfs:label | |
| rdfs:comment | - From Greek εκκεντρικός ekkentrikos, from εκ- ek "from" + κεντρικός kentrikos "of the center, central"
- In mathematics, the eccentricity (sometimes spelled "excentricity"), denoted ε (or, for basic text notation "e"), is a parameter associated with every conic section. It can be thought of as a measure of how much the conic section deviates from being circular. In particular,
* The eccentricity of a circle is zero.
* The eccentricity of an ellipse which is not a circle is greater than zero but less than 1.
* The eccentricity of a parabola is 1.
* The eccentricity of a hyperbola is greater than 1.
|
| owl:sameAs | |
| dcterms:subject | |
| dbkwik:interlingua/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| dbkwik:math/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| abstract | - From Greek εκκεντρικός ekkentrikos, from εκ- ek "from" + κεντρικός kentrikos "of the center, central"
- In mathematics, the eccentricity (sometimes spelled "excentricity"), denoted ε (or, for basic text notation "e"), is a parameter associated with every conic section. It can be thought of as a measure of how much the conic section deviates from being circular. In particular,
* The eccentricity of a circle is zero.
* The eccentricity of an ellipse which is not a circle is greater than zero but less than 1.
* The eccentricity of a parabola is 1.
* The eccentricity of a hyperbola is greater than 1. Furthermore, two conic sections are similar if and only if they have the same eccentricity.
|
