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Terms vs Eccentricate - What's the difference?

terms | eccentricate |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb eccentricate is

to move to the periphery; to marginalize.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

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    eccentricate

    English

    Verb

    (eccentricat)
  • To move to the periphery; to marginalize.
  • * 1783', John Young, ''A Criticism on the Elegy'', or '''1789 , Robert Potter, ''The Art of Criticism :
    • Gray owes much to scowering, as does Virgil to wire-drawn epithets; whilst Milton cramps with hard words and eccentricates by transposition,
  • * 1803 , Thomas Pownall, Memorial addressed to the Sovereigns of Europe and the Atlantic :
    • [...] have, by the intrigues of an ignorant, presumptuous, speculating faction, been absorbed in the vortex of the great continental power; have been eccentricated from their former orbit, and must now perform their future [...]
  • * 1989 , Julian B. Barbour, Absolute Or Relative Motion? , volume 1, page 300:
    • It was, he asserted, simply asking too much of human credibility to deny that all these identical equantized, and eccentricated , and perfectly phased epicycles did not have a common origin - either in the motion of the earth around the sun or the sun around the earth.

    Quotations

    * 1891 , Daniel Kinnear Clark, The Steam Engine , page 339: *: All the fire-bars are movable; they are supported at their outer ends on a transverse shaft, called "the eccentricated' shaft," a shaft formed of a series of cranks or eccentrics [...] The motion of the ' eccentricated shaft is derived from a cone-pulley of three speeds.

    Related terms

    * eccentric