aberration
a change from what is normal
TRANSLATION
aberration = die Abweichung, die Verirrung, die Anomalie --- GOOGLE INDEX aberration: approximately 12,400,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an ABERRATION.
(British actor Steve Coogan)
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Economists called the slow growth in December an ABERRATION that would likely be revised when the government makes adjustments to its data in March.
(Los Angeles Times)
(British actor Steve Coogan)
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Economists called the slow growth in December an ABERRATION that would likely be revised when the government makes adjustments to its data in March.
(Los Angeles Times)
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aberration
noun
- a change from what is typical or usual, especially a temporary change
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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An aberration is a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome, but temporary one. The word stems from Latin aberratio (a wandering), a noun of action from the past participle stem of aberrare, "to wander out of the way, lose the way, go astray."
Aberrare is from ab (away) + errare (to wander), which can also be traced to "err" (to make a mistake), an English word cognate with the German "irren."
Aberration is also used in the sense of a deviation in several fields of science:
- biology = a characteristic that deviates from the normal type
- optics = the failure of rays to converge at one focus because of a defect in a lens or mirror
- astronomy = the apparent displacement of a celestial object from its true position, caused by the relative motion of the observer and the object
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SYNONYMS
abnormality, departure, deviation, difference, distortion, diversion, exception, irregularity, straying, wandering
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The decline in stock prices today was just an aberration."
noun
- a change from what is typical or usual, especially a temporary change
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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An aberration is a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome, but temporary one. The word stems from Latin aberratio (a wandering), a noun of action from the past participle stem of aberrare, "to wander out of the way, lose the way, go astray."
Aberrare is from ab (away) + errare (to wander), which can also be traced to "err" (to make a mistake), an English word cognate with the German "irren."
Aberration is also used in the sense of a deviation in several fields of science:
- biology = a characteristic that deviates from the normal type
- optics = the failure of rays to converge at one focus because of a defect in a lens or mirror
- astronomy = the apparent displacement of a celestial object from its true position, caused by the relative motion of the observer and the object
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SYNONYMS
abnormality, departure, deviation, difference, distortion, diversion, exception, irregularity, straying, wandering
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The decline in stock prices today was just an aberration."
