1. Écart.
2. Déviation.
ETYM Latin aberratio: cf. French aberration. Related to Aberrate.
Deviation; momentary mental lapse; Astronomy, apparent deviation from heavenly body's true position due to movement of observer with the earth. chromatic aberration, focusing of light of different colors at different points resulting in a blurred image. spherical aberration, focusing at different points of rays passing through different parts of spherical lens.
1. An abnormal instance of something; an anomaly.
2. A disorder in one's mental state.
3. An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image; SYN. distortion, optical aberration.
Feature or occurrence that is not normal; an aberration or irregularity; also the state of being abnormal. The term is widely used in a medical context. In psychology, because of disagreement about defining “normalness”, other terms are now preferred, such as “deviant” or “maladjusted”. In statistics, abnormality denotes variance from the norm.
Abnormal psychology concerns itself with unusual or deviant behavior, with mental disorders, and with unusual experiences reported by normal individuals. Several approaches are employed—biological, physiological, behavioral, psychodynamic, and sociological—and the subject area overlaps with that of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and parapsychology. Many of the phenomena are relevant to general psychology and are studied under its various headings.
1. An abnormal condition; SYN. abnormalcy.
2. Behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality; SYN. irregularity.
3. Marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal; SYN. freakishness.
4. Retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence; SYN. mental defectiveness.
ETYM Latin anomalia, Greek. Related to Anomalous.
Something that is anomalous; Astronomy the angle between a planet, the sun and the perihelion of the planet.
1. Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule; SYN. anomalousness.
2. A person who is unusual; SYN. unusual person.
3. (Astronomy) Position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun).
A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface; SYN. radar target.
1. A trace on a display screen (as an oscilloscope); especially; a spot on a radar screen
2. A short crisp sound
3. An interruption of the sound received in a radio or television program or occurring in a recording as a result of blipping
4. A transient sharp movement up or down (as of a quantity commonly shown on a graph)
5. Something relatively small or inconsequential within a larger context
1. A physical defect, such as a loose connection, that prevents a system or device from operating as it should.
2. A programming error that can cause the software to fail.
3. As page fault, an attempt to access a page of virtual memory that is not mapped to a physical address. See also page fault.