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)

A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.

* 1724 , :

The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. . . . The best of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Visits of Escapade or Recreation.

* 1816 , , The Antiquary - Volume II , ch. 9:

[Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"

* 1918 , , Piccadilly Jim , ch. 1:

He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.

* 2011 March 4, , " The Adjustment Bureau''" (film review), ''Time (retrieved 23 March 2014):

He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.