a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.
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someone or something anomalous: With his quiet nature, he was an anomaly in his exuberant family.
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an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.
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an incongruity or inconsistency.
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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.
Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify: "Both men are anomalies: they have . . . likable personalities but each has made his reputation as a heavy"(David Pauly).
Astronomy The angular deviation, as observed from the sun, of a planet from its perihelion.
1571, from L. anomalia, from Gk. anomalia, noun of quality from anomalos "uneven, irregular," from an- "not" + homalos "even," from homos "same" (see same).
A*nal"o*gy\, n.; pl. Analogies. [L. analogia, Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. analogie. See Analogous.]1. A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden. Note: Followed by between, to, or with; as, there is an analogy between these objects, or one thing has an analogy to or with another. Note: Analogy is very commonly used to denote similarity or essential resemblance; but its specific meaning is a similarity of relations, and in this consists the difference between the argument from example and that from analogy. In the former, we argue from the mere similarity of two things; in the latter, from the similarity of their relations. --Karslake. 2. (Biol.) A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different. 3. (Geom.) Proportion; equality of ratios. 4. (Gram.) Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly. --Johnson.
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