Aberration
noun
A change from the normal, usual, or expected way.
His outburst in the meeting was just an aberration. He's usually very calm.
noun
A mistake or fault, in a system or machine.
There was an aberration in the telescope that caused us to misinterpret the data.
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Technical
noun
An issue with the way eyes focus light.
The patient has an aberration that makes his vision blurry.
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Medical
noun
A change from the normal, usual, or expected way.
His outburst in the meeting was just an aberration. He's usually very calm.
noun
A mistake or fault, in a system or machine.
There was an aberration in the telescope that caused us to misinterpret the data.
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Technical
noun
An issue with the way eyes focus light.
The patient has an aberration that makes his vision blurry.
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Medical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Uncommon Occurrence
Used when something unusual happens that does not reflect the regular pattern or behavior.
Losing their match was an aberration for the team; they usually win.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Surprise
Often implies a negative or unwanted deviation from the norm.
The company's sudden drop in stock price is seen as an aberration.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Predictive
An aberration doesn't usually indicate a long-term change.
Don't worry about the poor test score; it's an aberration from your usual grades.
Pro Tip 1/3Uncommon Occurrence
Used when something unusual happens that does not reflect the regular pattern or behavior.
Losing their match was an aberration for the team; they usually win.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Surprise
Often implies a negative or unwanted deviation from the norm.
The company's sudden drop in stock price is seen as an aberration.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Predictive
An aberration doesn't usually indicate a long-term change.
Don't worry about the poor test score; it's an aberration from your usual grades.
Pro Tip 1/3Uncommon Occurrence
Used when something unusual happens that does not reflect the regular pattern or behavior.
Losing their match was an aberration for the team; they usually win.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Surprise
Often implies a negative or unwanted deviation from the norm.
The company's sudden drop in stock price is seen as an aberration.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Predictive
An aberration doesn't usually indicate a long-term change.
Don't worry about the poor test score; it's an aberration from your usual grades.
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The puzzle of motivation...
But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity. What's interesting about this experiment is that it's not an aberration. This has been replicated over and over again
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
Angeles police say the incident was not racially motivated but the black community is not buying that about 300 members of the n-double a-c-p marched on police headquarters today this is an aberration this is something that should never have happened we had in place all of the procedures
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Medical Reason for...
How has it changed you? Well, I think it did remove any sense of that I had that the universe is a meaningless, cold place. I think it gave a kind of foundation of meaning for me. And I think the idea of was it a revelation or was it just an aberration in the brain?
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David Puttnam: What...
and their appeal to a largely disillusioned, older demographic, along with the apathy and obsession with the trivial that typifies at least some of the young, taken together, these and other similarly contemporary aberrations are threatening to squeeze the life
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Spiders Jump with Deadly...
retina of its primary eye one of the layers contained a green sensitive pigment despite the fact that this layer does not focus green light the researchers say because of chromatic aberration of the lens the D focus is larger under red light and under red
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Women entrepreneurs,...
emulated and which when we talk about women they are either exceptions to be dismissed or aberrations to be ignored and finally there is no society anywhere in all the world that has not changed except by its most exceptional so why
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Would you raise the bird...
though theirs are pure white. The gray catbird, on the other hand, is an expert at rooting out the very same parasites. It memorizes what the first egg in its nest looks like, which is usually its own, and tosses any aberrations.
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A Camera, Two Kids and a...
think it's a great advantage to be a woman in this job I think people assume that it's a disadvantage and I just think you're less threatening you're more of an aberration and most importantly for me in in gender divided
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:...
icons or pioneers or innovators to be emulated. And when we talk about women, they are either exceptions to be dismissed or aberrations to be ignored. And finally, there is no society anywhere in all the world
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How the West can adapt...
So the past 200 years of world history have therefore been a major historical aberration. All aberrations come to a natural end and this is what we are seeing. And if you look at chart two,
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The puzzle of motivation...
But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity. What's interesting about this experiment is that it's not an aberration. This has been replicated over and over again
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
Angeles police say the incident was not racially motivated but the black community is not buying that about 300 members of the n-double a-c-p marched on police headquarters today this is an aberration this is something that should never have happened we had in place all of the procedures
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Medical Reason for...
How has it changed you? Well, I think it did remove any sense of that I had that the universe is a meaningless, cold place. I think it gave a kind of foundation of meaning for me. And I think the idea of was it a revelation or was it just an aberration in the brain?
Video examples
David Puttnam: What...
and their appeal to a largely disillusioned, older demographic, along with the apathy and obsession with the trivial that typifies at least some of the young, taken together, these and other similarly contemporary aberrations are threatening to squeeze the life
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Spiders Jump with Deadly...
retina of its primary eye one of the layers contained a green sensitive pigment despite the fact that this layer does not focus green light the researchers say because of chromatic aberration of the lens the D focus is larger under red light and under red
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Women entrepreneurs,...
emulated and which when we talk about women they are either exceptions to be dismissed or aberrations to be ignored and finally there is no society anywhere in all the world that has not changed except by its most exceptional so why
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Would you raise the bird...
though theirs are pure white. The gray catbird, on the other hand, is an expert at rooting out the very same parasites. It memorizes what the first egg in its nest looks like, which is usually its own, and tosses any aberrations.
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A Camera, Two Kids and a...
think it's a great advantage to be a woman in this job I think people assume that it's a disadvantage and I just think you're less threatening you're more of an aberration and most importantly for me in in gender divided
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:...
icons or pioneers or innovators to be emulated. And when we talk about women, they are either exceptions to be dismissed or aberrations to be ignored. And finally, there is no society anywhere in all the world
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How the West can adapt...
So the past 200 years of world history have therefore been a major historical aberration. All aberrations come to a natural end and this is what we are seeing. And if you look at chart two,
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John Grierson
British Director
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
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Oneohtrix Point Never
American Musician
I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and weird stuff. It's not implicit in music to have a story, so it creates this incredible potential for vague stories.
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Alex Garland
British Novelist
The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.
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Jane Mayer
American Journalist
Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.
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John Ratcliffe
China believes that a global order without it at the top is a historical aberration. It aims to change that and reverse the spread of liberty around the world.
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Geoff Mulgan
English Educator
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.
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John Hickenlooper
American Politician
We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American Baseball Player
What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Remy de Gourmont
French Novelist
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
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Anatole France
French Novelist
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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John Grierson
British Director
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
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Oneohtrix Point Never
American Musician
I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and weird stuff. It's not implicit in music to have a story, so it creates this incredible potential for vague stories.
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Alex Garland
British Novelist
The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.
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Jane Mayer
American Journalist
Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.
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John Ratcliffe
China believes that a global order without it at the top is a historical aberration. It aims to change that and reverse the spread of liberty around the world.
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Geoff Mulgan
English Educator
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.
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John Hickenlooper
American Politician
We need to recognize that we can't allow people that are aberrations of nature to take away the joys and freedoms that we enjoy.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American Baseball Player
What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Remy de Gourmont
French Novelist
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
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Anatole France
French Novelist
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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