anomaly
Meaning of anomaly
noun
- A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
- 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.
- Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
She disregarded some of the anamolies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
- Any of various angular distances.
- A defect or malformation.
- A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
- An irregularity or disproportion.
Information about anomaly
- It is a name.
- The plural form of anomaly is: anomalies.
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Hyphenation of anomaly
anom-aly
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- anomaly is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
anomaly synonyms
Meaning anomalousness:
Meaning :
abnormality, deviance, deviation, exception, inconsistency, irregularity, phenomenon
Translation of anomaly
- French: irrégularité, anomalie, anormalité
- Spanish: anomalía
- Italian: anormalità, anomalia, irregolarità
- German: Anomalie
Anagrams of anomaly
Words that rhyme with anomaly
deuteranomaly, geomaly, protanomaly, tritanomaly
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