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Anomalies

[uh-nom-uh-lee]

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noun, plural -lies.

a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.

someone or something anomalous: With his quiet nature, he was an anomaly in his exuberant family.

an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.

an incongruity or inconsistency.

Astronomy. a quantity measured in degrees, defining the position of an orbiting body with respect to the point at which it is nearest to or farthest from its primary.

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Meteorology. the amount of deviation of a meteorological quantity from the accepted normal value of that quantity.

Grammar. irregularity.

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Origin:
1565–75; < Latin anōmalia < Greek anōmalía, equivalent to anṓmal(os) anomalous + -ia -ia

Synonyms
1, 2. abnormality, exception, peculiarity.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Traditionally, doctors and nurses dealt with babies born with fatal anomalies by whisking them away from their mothers to die.

Thaler called these cases anomalies and tacked a list of them to his office wall.

Some anomalies can be explained by variations of both phenomena.

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Traditionally, doctors and nurses dealt with babies born with fatal anomalies by whisking them away from their mothers to die.

Thaler called these cases anomalies and tacked a list of them to his office wall.

Some anomalies can be explained by variations of both phenomena.

Other recent reports have shown that even though cloned animals may appear normal, they can develop anomalies later in life.

The size of the study was essential in enabling the researchers to spot rare anomalies.

He would never have noticed the anomalies that led him to develop the theory of relativity.

She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies.

There are some odd anomalies about tenure and publishing.

They use powerful computers to hunt for pricing anomalies in the market.

Any planets circling the star in front create detectable anomalies.

The locations of the other two, in contrast, were inferred from measurements of anomalies in the planet's gravitational field.

With that overheated decade came anomalies in surface temperature and rainfall.

Other anomalies exist in the short-interest situation.

There are also puzzling anomalies in the pattern of extinction.

Some aspects of rampant consumerism have resulted in startling anomalies.

And they have discovered two genuinely odd anomalies that conventional physics cannot easily explain.

Misspellings and other anomalies in previous sections may help.

There are other anomalies in the short-interest situation.

Sunspots form near the poles as a result of magnetic anomalies.

It is extremely difficult to match those gradients and the human eye is extremely good at recognizing such anomalies.

But there are infinitely many biases, patterns, and anomalies to fish for.

All kinds of further puzzles and anomalies have come to light.

The sensed presence may be the left-hemisphere interpreter's explanation for right-hemisphere anomalies.

Thermal anomalies have been imaged at the vents of both volcanoes, although no lava has been seen thus far.

Taking advantage of those anomalies proved difficult at the height of the credit crunch.

Problems on the periphery can simply be noted as anomalies.

Rather than rooting out the anomalies in its statutes, the state prefers to trust its judges to avert miscarriages of justice.

The first is that pricing anomalies have started to appear.

Lack of liquidity might account for some of the anomalies seen in carbon markets.

Numerous so-called anomalies have been discovered, evidence that suggests the market can be beaten after all.

Many in the diverse world of animal matters brood over such anomalies.

Second, they conclude from these anomalies that the official account is a pack of lies.

Current climate trends might well produce climactic anomalies that allow new communities of species to form.

One consequence is that extreme events such as the world wars do not appear to be anomalies.

Private equity owes some of its success to anomalies in the tax system.

It does this by sifting through the data generated by the network's sensors to look for anomalies.

What is clearly needed is a phased programme of changes to iron out these anomalies.

Any attempt to find a clear definition of a country soon runs into a thicket of exceptions and anomalies.

But the authors' thesis raises anomalies of its own.

They needed to use statistical tools to hunt for anomalies.

It's one of the great anomalies of our ownership society: shareholders own companies, but executives can easily slap them down.

In theory, such anomalies are potentially lucrative for.

They're blaming the anomalies on vast slab graveyards.

Decentralization has emptied many buildings and created such anomalies as more staff members than patients.

Three anomalies will put the country on high alert.

It uses a computer to pick up on anomalies recorded by video cameras and alerts the humans monitoring the system.

Jett, charging that he had exploited those anomalies to manufacture phantom profits to win himself huge bonuses.

Testing even a handful of them for anomalies requires weeks of work.

Tozzi speculated that similar anomalies in the past might have inspired the myth of the unicorn.

It scared me and actually began what became a lifelong obsession with physical anomalies.

Epstein posited that the anomalies were caused by an overabundance of proteins generated by the extra chromosome.

Bagley began to notice disturbing contradictions and anomalies.

Obviously some sort of subtle magnetic phenomenon, perhaps not unlike instrument joggling anomalies one encounters at sea.

The small-cap sector definitely has a lot of anomalies for the savvy manager to exploit.

It's one of those medical anomalies that nobody can really explain:.

Can one truly credit all known existence to the anomalies of chemistry, in what is considered the universe.

The result is an elimination of what physicists call gauge anomalies.

Instead, what the anomalies of physics demonstrate is that there is no single test that can define the truth.

Italy is a young democracy with a political system that has a lot of defects and important anomalies.

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Word Origin & History

anomaly

1570s, from L. anomalia, from Gk. anomalia, noun of quality from anomalos "uneven, irregular," from an-, privative prefix, "not" + homalos "even," from homos "same" (see same).

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Medical Dictionary

anomaly a·nom·a·ly (ə-nŏm'ə-lē)
n.
A deviation from the average or norm.

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"To the young mind, every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things, and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running underground, whereby contrary and remote things cohere, and flower out from one stem."

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