Is “Eccentricity” a Scrabble word?

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Yes
ECCENTRICITY
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SOWPODS / CSW
Scrabble UK & International
Valid
TWL / NWL
Scrabble North America
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Meaning of Eccentricity

/ˌɛk.sɛnˈtɹɪs.ɪ.ti/

noun
  1. 1.The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.

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

    For an ellipse, the eccentricity is the ratio of the distance from the center to a focus divided by the length of the semi-major axis.

  3. 3.The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).