aberration (noun)

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• aberration — ► NOUN 1) a departure from what is normal or acceptable. 2) a mental or moral lapse. 3) Optics the failure of rays to converge at one focus because of a defect in a lens or mirror. DERIVATIVES aberrational adjective. ORIGIN Latin, from aberrare… …   English terms dictionary

• aberration — noun (C, U) an action or event that is different from what usually happens or what someone usually does: a temporary aberration in US foreign policy | a mental aberration …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• aberration — I (abnormality) noun alienation, declension, deflection, departure, derailment, deviation, digression, discrepancy, dislocation, disorientation, displacement, divergence, divergency, diversion, irregularity, lapse, misdirection, refraction,… …   Law dictionary

• aberration — noun /ˌæbəˈreɪʃən/ a) The act of wandering from the barn; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. , The aberration of youth b) A partial alienation of reason. , Aberrations from theory …   Wiktionary

• aberration — (n.) 1590s, a wandering, straying, from L. aberrationem (nom. aberratio) a wandering, noun of action from pp. stem of aberrare to wander out of the way, lose the way, go astray, from ab away (see AB (Cf. ab )) + errare to wander (see ERR (Cf …   Etymology dictionary

• aberration — noun a statistical aberration Syn: anomaly, deviation, departure from the norm, divergence, abnormality, irregularity, variation, digression, freak, rogue, rarity, oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, quirk; mistake …   Thesaurus of popular words

• aberration — noun Etymology: Latin aberrare Date: 1594 1. the fact or an instance of being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state 2. failure of a mirror, refracting surface, or lens to produce exact point to point correspondence …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• aberration — noun Syn: anomaly, deviation, abnormality, irregularity, variation, freak, oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, mistake …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• aberration — UK [ˌæbəˈreɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms aberration : singular aberration plural aberrations formal 1) something that is not normal or not what you would usually expect a genetic aberration 2) a short time when someone… …   English dictionary

• aberration — ab|er|ra|tion [ ,æbə reıʃn ] noun count or uncount something that is not normal or not what you would usually expect: a genetic aberration a. a short time when someone behaves in a very strange or careless way: He dismissed the defeat as a… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• aberration — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. deviation, variation, distortion, disorientation; aberrance, insanity; error. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Deviation] Syn. irregularity, lapse, wandering; see difference 2 . 2. [Abnormality] Syn.… …   English dictionary for students