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English
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
anomaly (plural anomalies)
- A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
- Synonyms: abnormality, deviance, deviation, exception, inconsistency, irregularity, phenomenon
1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 43:This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
- Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
- (sciences) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
- (astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
- (biology) A defect or malformation.
- (quantum mechanics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
- (dated) An irregularity or disproportion.
Derived terms
Translations
deviation from norm
- Arabic: شُذُوذ m (šuḏūḏ)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: анама́лія f (anamálija), ненарма́льнасьць f (njenarmálʹnasʹcʹ)
- Bulgarian: аномалия (bg) (anomalija)
- Catalan: anomalia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 異常 / 异常 (zh) (yìcháng), 反常 (zh) (fǎncháng)
- Czech: anomálie (cs) f
- Dutch: afwijking (nl), anomalie (nl), abnormaliteit (nl)
- Esperanto: anomalio
- Finnish: anomalia (fi), poikkeavuus (fi) (property), poikkeama (fi), poikkeus (fi) (instance)
- French: anomalie (fr) f
- Galician: anomalía (gl) f
- Georgian: ანომალია (anomalia)
- German: Anomalie (de) f
- Greek: ανωμαλία (el) f (anomalía)
- Hindi: असंगति (hi) (asaṅgti)
- Hungarian: anomália (hu), rendellenesség (hu), szabálytalanság (hu), eltérés (hu)
- Irish: aimhrialtacht f
- Italian: anomalia (it) f
- Japanese: 例外 (ja) (れいがい, reigai)
- Kazakh: ауытқушылық (auytquşylyq)
- Korean: 예외(例外) (ko) (ye'oe)
- Malayalam: വ്യതിചലനം (ml) (vyaticalanaṁ)
- Persian: ناهنجاری (fa) (nâhanjâri)
- Polish: anomalia (pl) f, nieprawidłowość (pl) f
- Portuguese: anomalia (pt) f
- Romanian: anomalie (ro) f
- Russian: анома́лия (ru) f (anomálija), ненорма́льность (ru) f (nenormálʹnostʹ)
- Spanish: anomalía (es) f
- Swedish: avvikelse (sv) c, anomali (sv) c
- Tagalog: anomalya
- Thai: ความผิดปกติ
- Turkish: denksizlik (tr), fevkaladelik (tr), olağandışılık, anomali (tr)
- Ukrainian: анома́лія (uk) f (anomálija), ненорма́льність f (nenormálʹnistʹ)
- Vietnamese: sự bất thường
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something or someone that is strange or unusual
science: any event, big or small, out of the ordinary
astronomy: any of various angular distances
dated: an irregularity or inconsistency
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Further reading
- “anomaly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “anomaly”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “anomaly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.