eccentricity

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A measure of the shape of an ellipse, such as the orbit of a body around a center of mass, that compares the lengths of the semi-major, or longest, axis and the semi-minor, or shortest, axis. The eccentricity of a circle is zero, while a highly elliptical orbital path of a comet might be 0.9.