Anomaly

Noun

 * 1) A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal.
 * 2) Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
 * 3)  Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
 * 4)  Any of various angular distances.
 * 5)  A defect or malformation.
 * 6)  A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
 * 7)  An irregularity or disproportion.

Adjectives for Anomaly
monstrous; dreadful; curious; noble; racial; peculiar.

Thesaurus
aberrance; aberrancy; aberration; abnormality; abnormity; amorphism; anomalism; anomalousness; conceit; conversation piece; crackpotism; crank; crankiness; crankism; crosspatch; crotchet; crotchetiness; curio; curiosity; derangement; deviancy; deviation; difference; differentness; divergence; dottiness; eccentricity; erraticism; erraticness; exception; freak; freakiness; freakishness; heteromorphism; idiocrasy; idiosyncrasy; improbability; impropriety; inadmissibility; inapplicability; inappositeness; inappropriateness; inaptitude; inaptness; individualist; infelicity; inferiority; inner-directed person; irregularity; irrelevance; irrelevancy; kink; maggot; maladjustment; mannerism; mesalliance; misalliance; misfit; misjoinder; misjoining; mismatch; monstrosity; museum piece; naysayer; nonconformist; nonconformity; nonesuch; oddball; oddity; peculiarity; prodigiosity; prodigy; queerness; quip; quirk; quirkiness; rarity; singularity; sport; strange thing; strangeness; subnormality; superiority; teratism; trick; twist; uncongeniality; unconventionality; unfitness; unnaturalism; unnaturalness; unsuitability; whim; whimsicality; whimsy

Etymology
From anomalia:, from  ἀνωμαλία:, from ἀνώμαλος:, negating the meaning of ὁμαλός:.

Synonyms

 * (deviation from the norm) abnormality, deviance, deviation, exception, inconsistency, irregularity

Derived terms

 * anomaloscope
 * anomalous
 * eccentric anomaly


 * flyby anomaly
 * mean anomaly
 * true anomaly

Translations

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 * Irish: aimhrialtacht
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 * Spanish: anomalía


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 * Bulgarian: аномалия
 * Dutch: afwijking, anomalie, misvorming
 * Greek:


 * Irish: aimhrialtacht
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