paracentric

Meanings

Adjective

• Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a centre.

Noun

• A planar curve having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach to, or recede from, a fixed point or centre, by equal distances in equal times.

Related

Similar words

• paracentrical

Origin

• para- + -centric