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Anomalies

Anomaly \A*nom"a*ly\, n.; pl. Anomalies. [L. anomalia, Gr. ?. See Anomalous.]

  1. Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.

    We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men.
    --Burke.

    As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.
    --Darwin.

  2. (Astron.)

    1. The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.

    2. The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet.

  3. (Nat. Hist.) Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type. [1913 Webster] ||

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anomalies

n. (plural of anomaly English)

Wikipedia
Anomalies (album)

Anomalies is Cephalic Carnage's fourth full-length album. It was released on Relapse Records. A video was released for the album's single, "Dying Will Be the Death of Me". The song is a parody of American metalcore.

Anomalies was released on CD and 12" vinyl format. It was recorded from November to December 2004.

Usage examples of "anomalies".

If IRU 247 was watching now, he would explain the gravitational anomalies later.

Reason for high concentration of gravitational anomalies in and around center of winter storm system.

Both gravitational anomalies originating within possible walking distance of last known position of civilian subject originated to east of last known position and proceeded southwest at high altitude.

She was still suspicious, but if the two anomalies were two of the three psionicists she had shot at, where was the third?

One had headed straight toward the concentration of anomalies, while the other had swerved off to the north and vanished in a small town.

I was captivated by all the mysteries, anomalies, anachronisms and puzzles, and wanted to learn as much about them as I could.

Under the category of anomalies, West made specific reference to the bowls carved out of diorite and other hard stones described in Part VI.

Can we just run a compare on the Jammer using the anomalies we found in the Trigger?

If Bazargan had had a choice, Allen would not be filling the obligatory graduate-student position on this scientific expedition, which already had too many anomalies surrounding it.

But statistical anomalies would not help the children of Belarus and Pripyat.

It was then that he first noticed the anomalies in the Parthalonian landscape, as its familiar beauty flashed by below him.

The kink is one of those anomalies that reinforces a theory because, in retrospect, it should have been predictable.

Three more runs at the milligram level showed no anomalies, and they got the go-ahead to do the Ten-Ten experiment--only two days before voting began in the senate election.

There were some anomalies in the relationships of the things discovered, but it was not as fishy as it had been in the early morning, not as fishy as when Anteros had announced and then dug out the shards of the pot, the three points, the mastodon bone.

It must be remembered that limits of space have forbidden satisfactory discussion of the cases, and the prime object of the whole work has been to carefully collect and group the anomalies and curiosities, and allow the reader to form his own conclusions and make his own deductions.