Usually means: Individuals with unconventional habits, behaviors.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word eccentrics:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. eccentrics: Merriam-Webster
  2. eccentrics: Collins English Dictionary
  3. eccentrics: Vocabulary.com
  4. Eccentrics, eccentrics: Wordnik
  5. eccentrics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. eccentrics: Wiktionary
  7. eccentrics: Dictionary.com
  8. eccentrics: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Eccentrics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. eccentrics: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eccentrics: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eccentrics: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. eccentrics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. eccentrics: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Eccentrics: Extragalactic Astronomy

(Note: See eccentric as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (eccentric)

adjective:  Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
adjective:  Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
adjective:  Having a different center; not concentric.
adjective:  (of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
adjective:  (physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
adjective:  Having different goals or motives.
adjective:  (mycology) Having or being an oospore with a single large oil globule on one side that displaces much of the ooplasm and forces the ooplasts to one side.
noun:  One who does not behave like others.
noun:  (slang) A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs.
noun:  (geometry, astronomy) A circle not having the same centre as another.
noun:  (engineering) A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
noun:  (physiology) An exercise that goes against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle.
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