anomaly
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- IPA /əˈnɒməlɪ/
Noun
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.
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abnormalitydeviancedeviationexceptioninconsistencyirregularityphenomenonanomalousnessunusual personanomalousabnormalaberrationfreakdiscrepancyincoherencemonstrositydissonancemalformation
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