Noun

(eccentricities)

The quality of being eccentric; any eccentric behaviour.

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(mathematics) The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.

Noun

(en noun)

(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.

A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook).

(archaic) a whim or a fancy

* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy

Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets , thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms

* De Quincey

He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.

A forked support; a crotch.

* Dryden

The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.

(military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.

(military) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.

(printing) A bracket.

Noun

(m)

(punctuation) bracket