anomaly
Plural: anomalies
Noun
- Something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.
- deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
- a person who is unusual
- (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
- A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
- Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
- Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
- Any of various angular distances.
- A defect or malformation.
- A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
- An irregularity or disproportion.
Examples
- Getting three Q’s in one game was a statistical anomaly.
- He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
- She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin anomalia, from Ancient Greek ἀνωμαλία (anōmalía, “irregularity, anomaly”), from ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos, “irregular, uneven”), negating the meaning of ὁμαλός (homalós, “even”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”).
Synonyms
anomalousness, unusual person, aberrant, abnormality, anomaly, deviance, deviant, deviation, exception, farlie, freak, inconsistency, irregularity, odd fish, oddity, outlier, peculiarity, phenomenon, queerness, rarity, rum, strange fish, strangeness, unusualness, weirdness
Scrabble Score: 12
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