Eccentric

a term in mechanics applied to contrivances for on circular into reciprocating (backwa and forward) rectilinear motion, consisting of variously-shaped disks attached to a revolving shaft not in their center. An eccentric wheel is a wheel fixed on an axis that does not pa through the center.; Eccles, Robert Gibson, chemist; born in Scotland, Jan. 1, 1848; was educated in Long Island College; bee came chemist in the United States Bureau of Indian affairs: and dean in the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy. He has made several valuable chemical discoveries, and has written many scientific treatises. Ecclesia (convocation), a popular a embly, especially that of Athens where the people exercised full sovereignty, and at which every citizen of 20 years of age was entitled to vote The term was applied by the Septuagint translators to the Jewish come mon wealth, and so was naturally adopted by New Testament writers to designate the Church.