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aberration
/ˌæbɚˈeɪʃən/
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Use four syllables, with the strongest beat on the third. The final tion sounds like shun and stays lighter than the long a vowel before it.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“The unusual result appeared to be an aberration.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does aberration mean?
noun
- The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.
- The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; a defect in a focusing mechanism that prevents the intended focal point.
- A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer.
More meanings (7)
noun
- The tendency of light rays to preferentially strike the leading face of a moving object (the effect underlying the above phenomenon).
- A partial alienation of reason.
- Any creature with supernatural powers not found in the organized classes of beings in a given setting.
- A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character.
- Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ.
- A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range.
- A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌæbɚˈeɪʃən/
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Bezenburg has mathematically demonstrated just such an aberration in falling bodies, as is mathematically required by the diurnal motion of the earth.
By what aberration of nomenclature was the name of Lithurgus, a worker in stone, given to insects which work solely in wood?
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From the standpoint of aberration one could find no evidences of anything but eroticism and a constant tendency to deviate from the truth.
The correction for the aberration of light is said, on high authority, not to be perfect even in that most perfect organ, the eye.
Flushes, headaches, rheumatic and neuralgic pains, melancholia, irritability, mental aberration, partial paralysis and a multitude of other symptoms appear and gradually increase in severity.