Word Finder - anomaly

definition

A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.

synonyms

• abnormality
• deviance
• deviation
• exception
• inconsistency
• irregularity
• phenomenon

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Something or someone that is strange or unusual.

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He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.

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Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.

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She disregarded some of the anamolies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.

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Any of various angular distances.

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A defect or malformation.

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A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.

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An irregularity or disproportion.

There's an anomaly in your blood test, but you're physically healthy, Dr. Williams said with a warm smile at odds with the cold sterility of the room.

They can only detect or fail to detect anomaly.

As we have said all along it is about rectifying an anomaly.

The Scotsman points out a glaring anomaly in the evidence presented.

We have seen that the last vestiges of the monstrous anomaly of modern colonial slavery are disappearing from all civilized states and their foreign possessions.

It is also intended to remove the anomaly of people doing similar jobs being paid different amounts.

Sincerely attached to his home, he yet felt the anomaly of his position.

This was an anomaly in American politics.

They were beautiful and tiny, some sort of geological anomaly.

She has a hereditary blood anomaly that makes her immune to all but the oldest of our kind.

Kepler's Problem, namely, that of finding the co-ordinates of a planet at a given time, which is equivalent - given the mean anomaly - to that of determining the true anomaly, was solved approximately by Kepler, and more completely by Wallis, Newton and others.

The anomaly AFQ of Q at any moment is called the mean anomaly, and the angle QFP by which the true anomaly exceeds it at that moment is the equation of the centre.

By a strange anomaly the Radical measures brought forward by the Left diminished instead of increasing the distance between it and the Conservatives.

The anomaly is then the angle BFP which the radius vector makes with the major axis.

This is the actual or true anomaly.

Join CR; the angle CRQ is then the eccentric anomaly.

An Anomalistic year is the time (365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, 48 seconds) in which the earth (and similarly for any other planet) passes from perihelion to perihelion, or from any given value of the anomaly to the same again.

The last apparent anomaly, and the last threat of instability, thus disappeared from the solar system.

If only one eye is used, its anomaly should be alone corrected; where both are used and nearly of equal strength, correction of each often gives satisfactory results.

In Baden, Wurttemberg and Hanover the railways were almost entirely the property of the state, but in all other parts public and private lines existed side by side, an arrangement which seemed to combine the disadvantages of both systems. In 1871 threequarters of the railway lines belonged to private companies, and the existence of these powerful private corporations, while they were defended by many of the Liberals, was, according to the national type of thought, something of an anomaly.

What was the cause of this anomaly ?

The final line of the article vowed to pursue the anomaly in coming additions.

He was not an anomaly in choosing this path, merely a pioneer.

The angle from the pericentre to the actual radius vector, and the length of the latter being found, the angular distance of the planet from the node in the plane of the orbit is found by adding to the true anomaly the distance from the node to the pericentre.

This anomaly aroused lively protests, especially in the French group, after the battle of Agincourt had rekindled national animosity on both sides.

The explanation of this seeming anomaly is to be found in the primitive destination of the " animals " to the purposes of an " horary zodiac."

They exhibit in an exaggerated form the irregularities of distribution visible in our zodiacal constellations, and present the further anomaly of being frequently reckoned as twenty-eight in number, while the ecliptical arcs they characterize are invariably twenty-seven.

From about 168 B.C. the head of the Pergamene school was Crates of Mallus, who (like the Stoics) was an adherent of the principle of " anomaly " in grammar, and was thus opposed to Aristarchus of Alexandria, the champion of " analogy."

His most famous pupil was Varro (116-27), the six surviving books of whose great work on the Latin language are mainly concerned with the great grammatical controversy on analogy and anomaly - a controversy which also engaged the attention of Cicero and Caesar, and of the elder Pliny and Quintilian.

Its amount is the correction which must be applied positively or negatively to the mean anomaly in order to obtain the true anomaly.

The Danish monarchy since the days of Margaret had continued to be purely elective; and a purely elective monarchy at that stage of the political development of Europe was a mischievous anomaly.

These facts also account for the apparent anomaly that the exports from Oporto are much higher than the total production of wine in the Alto Douro.

Benefit of clergy became an intolerable anomaly, all the more so because the privilege was extended in practice not only to all persons actually in minor orders, but to all who claimed them; any criminal who could read had a fair chance of being reckoned a clerk.

Darazi, who had acted independently in his apostolate, was branded by Hamza as a heretic, and thus, by a curious anomaly, he is actually held in detestation by the very sect which perhaps bears his name.

The seeming anomaly of classifying as a single branch of science all that we know in a field so wide, while subdividing our knowledge of things on our own planet into an indefinite number of separate sciences, finds its explanation in the impossibility of subjecting the matter of the heavens to that experimental scrutiny which yields such rich results when applied to matter which we can handle at will.

Modern scholars have advanced various theories to account for the anomaly.

One anomaly of his observations is, his description of the arch as sometimes so bright as to resemble the Milky Way, a condition which would make it easily visible at ordinary altitudes.

Another anomaly is that he never saw the Gegenschein, but describes the band as equally bright in all its parts, except near the horizon.

She has an anomaly that makes her immune to young and old Immortal magic, all the way back to the Ancients.

You were an anomaly, like a band-aid.

Not a geological anomaly, but the spirit of a child who died violently.

Resolving the VAT anomaly remains the most obvious means of promoting more sustainable approaches to the housing stock.

In the case of diagnosis of congenital anomaly, there is no upper limit.

I also have a report by Dr. Tartaglia on girls with a chromosome anomaly.

For the seven years of our record there is a very obvious oscillation in the temperature anomaly.

The low resistance anomaly in the northwest survey area is likely to be an effect of a large tree.

Generally, at most stations, the midnight foF2 reach the maximum in summer, and no winter anomaly can be discerned.

The anomaly attacks some basic Islamic principles and propagates many belief anomalies.

Ascent occurs ahead of a surface warm anomaly warm advection (Laplacian of the thermal advection ).

The northern part of the anomaly is very amorphous at this point (Figure 3 ).