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Another word for aberration

Noun

  1. A departing from what is prescribed

    2. See also:

    correct

    approach

  2. The condition of being abnormal

    3. See also:

    usual

    good

  3. Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely

    4. See also:

    sane

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Another word for aberration

Noun

  1. Deviation

    2. See also:

    difference

  2. Abnormality

    3. See also:

    quirk

    irregularity

    characteristic

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Sentence Examples

  • She is normally calm and level headed, so this outburst is an aberration.

  • The discovery of the aberration of light in 1725, due to James Bradley, is one of the most important in the whole domain of astronomy.

  • We considered our defeat to be an aberration, since we'd easily beaten this team last season.

  • It has been in the past a source of much perplexity to observers of transits, but is now understood to be a result of irradiation, produced by the atmosphere or by the aberration of the telescope.

  • The chromatic aberration of the object-glass of one of these telescopes is corrected for photographic rays, and the image formed by it is received on a highly sensitive photographic plate.

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