anomaly

Meaning

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.
• Any of various angular distances.
• A defect or malformation.
• A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
• An irregularity or disproportion.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• eccentric anomaly
• flyby anomaly
• mean anomaly
• true anomaly

Origin

• From Latin anomalia, from Ancient Greek ἀνωμαλία, from ἀνώμαλος, negating the meaning of ὁμαλός, from ὁμός.