Definition: an irregularity or peculiarity that deviates from normal expectations and can be difficult to identify or classify--something odd or unusual
Synonyms: peculiarity, abnormality, deviation, oddity, irregularity, curiosity, discrepancy, exception, aberration
Antonyms: normalcy, constancy, regularity
Tips: Anomaly is often used in statistics to describe an occurrence that seems out of the norm or unexplainable. See enigma for additional analysis of anomaly.
Usage Examples:
I don't think we need to worry about that happening again; it was just a one time anomaly. (irregularity, discrepancy)
I don't think we can explain the precipitous drop in sales last month; now that sales have increased back to normal, I think the drop was just an anomaly. (abnormality, exception)
The cardiologist was looking for anomalies that might indicate Heart disease in the patient's blood. (irregularities, abnormalities)
I have diligently researched every possible answer for why our network crashed, and I have come up empty handed; I'm convinced it was an unexplainable anomaly. (oddity, irregularity)
An anomaly is any occurrence or object that is strange, unusual, or unique. It can also mean a discrepancy or deviation from an established rule or trend.
Anomalistics is the study of scientific anomalies. In computer science, anomaly detection refers to the process of detecting anomalies from the relevant data.
In the following particular contexts, "anomaly" may refer to:
Astronomy
Eccentric anomaly, intermediate value used to compute the position of a celestial object as a function of time
Flyby anomaly, unexpected energy increase during Earth flybys of satellites
Mean anomaly, measure of time in the study of orbital dynamics
Pioneer anomaly, observed deviation of the trajectories of various unmanned spacecraft
South Atlantic Anomaly, region where Earth's inner van Allen radiation belt makes its closest approach to the planet's surface
True anomaly, angle between the direction of periapsis and the current position of an object on its orbit.
Geophysics
Bouguer anomaly, anomaly in gravimetry
Free-air anomaly, gravity anomaly that has been computed for latitude and corrected for elevation of the station
Gravity anomaly, difference between the observed gravity and a value predicted from a model
Iridium anomaly, very rare element in the Earth's crust
Magnetic anomaly, local variation in the Earth's magnetic field
Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, territory rich in iron ores located within Kursk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast, and Oryol Oblast
Temagami Magnetic Anomaly, large buried geologic structure in the Temagami region of Ontario, Canada
Anomaly means temperature that is strange, unusual or different from the norm, from the usual. In climate studies the norm is usually the average world temperature recorded between 1951 and 1980. See the link below for an animation of the earth's temperature anomaly from 1800 to the present. Red is warmer, blue is colder.
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Anomaly is a noun.
irregularity is the synonyms of anomaly
Anomaly means, essentially, irregularity. An example sentence would be: The anomaly of the necklace, is what she liked about it.
Anomaly - comics - was created in 1996.
Anomalies is the plural of the noun anomaly.
The extra leg on this baboon was quite an anomaly. The spring snowstorm was an anomaly that could not be explained.
A graphic anomaly that's a left over effect from human intervention.
In the circus, there are many abnormal performers who can stretch and bend in many abnormal ways.
to deal with an anomalie you must incude them in your reserarch as they my mean your hypothesis is incorrect if you get lots of them
Anomaly - Something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.
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