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anomaly
/əˈnɑ.mə.li/
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What does anomaly mean?
noun
- A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
- Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
- Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
More meanings (4)
noun
- Any of various angular distances.
- A defect or malformation.
- A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
- (dated) An irregularity or disproportion.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈnɑ.mə.li/
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The source of this apparent anomaly is to be found in the imagination, which is the fountain-head of all kinds of creation.
When once the public fully grasps the true import of this glaring anomaly, the days of the drug system will be numbered.
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So general is this form of transmission that it is an anomaly when variations in certain breeds are transmitted equally to both sexes.
In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me, had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.