FromLatinanomalia, fromAncient Greekἀνωμαλία(anōmalía,“irregularity, anomaly”), fromἀνώμαλος(anṓmalos,“irregular, uneven”), negating the meaning ofὁμαλός(homalós,“even”), fromὁμός(homós,“same”).
anomaly (pluralanomalies)
- Adeviation from arule or from what is regarded asnormal; anoutlier.
- Synonyms:abnormality,deviance,deviation,exception,inconsistency,irregularity,phenomenon
1956,Arthur C. Clarke,The City and the Stars, page43:This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and theanomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
- Something or someone that isstrange orunusual.
He is ananomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
- (sciences) Anyevent ormeasurement that is out of theordinary regardless of whether it isexceptional or not.
She disregarded some of theanomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
- (astronomy) Any of variousangulardistances.
- (biology) Adefect ormalformation.
- (quantum mechanics) A failure of a classicalsymmetry due to quantum corrections.
- (dated) Anirregularity ordisproportion.
deviation from norm
- Arabic:شُذُوذ m(šuḏūḏ)
- Armenian:please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian:анама́лія f(anamálija),ненарма́льнасьць f(njenarmálʹnasʹcʹ)
- Bulgarian:аномалия (bg)(anomalija)
- Catalan:anomalia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:異常 /异常 (zh)(yìcháng),反常 (zh)(fǎncháng)
- Czech:anomálie (cs) f
- Dutch:afwijking (nl),anomalie (nl),abnormaliteit (nl)
- Esperanto:anomalio
- Finnish:anomalia (fi),poikkeavuus (fi)(property),poikkeama (fi),poikkeus (fi)(instance)
- French:anomalie (fr) f
- Galician:anomalía (gl) f
- Georgian:ანომალია(anomalia)
- German:Anomalie (de) f
- Greek:ανωμαλία (el) f(anomalía)
- Hindi:असंगति (hi)(asaṅgti)
- Hungarian:anomália (hu),rendellenesség (hu),szabálytalanság (hu),eltérés (hu)
- Irish:aimhrialtacht f
- Italian:anomalia (it) f
- Japanese:例外 (ja)(れいがい, reigai)
- Kazakh:ауытқушылық(auytquşylyq)
- Korean:예외(例外) (ko)(ye'oe)
- Malayalam:വ്യതിചലനം (ml)(vyaticalanaṁ)
- Persian:ناهنجاری (fa)(nâhanjâri)
- Polish:anomalia (pl) f,nieprawidłowość (pl) f
- Portuguese:anomalia (pt) f
- Romanian:anomalie (ro) f
- Russian:анома́лия (ru) f(anomálija),ненорма́льность (ru) f(nenormálʹnostʹ)
- Spanish:anomalía (es) f
- Swedish:avvikelse (sv) c,anomali (sv) c
- Tagalog:anomalya
- Thai:ความผิดปกติ
- Turkish:denksizlik (tr),fevkaladelik (tr),olağandışılık,anomali (tr)
- Ukrainian:анома́лія (uk) f(anomálija),ненорма́льність f(nenormálʹnistʹ)
- Vietnamese:sựbất thường
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something or someone that is strange or unusual
science: any event, big or small, out of the ordinary
astronomy: any of various angular distances
dated: an irregularity or inconsistency
biological defect or malformation
Translations to be checked
- “anomaly”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “anomaly”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “anomaly”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
