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   ocr: ECCENTRICITY Symbol: e. The distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse divided by the semimajor axis (a). Eccentricity is a measure of how different from ar - - circle an ellipse is (a circle has e=0). ae a(Semimajor Axis)