anomaly

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  1. noun Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
  2. noun One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify: "Both men are anomalies: they have . . . likable personalities but each has made his reputation as a heavy” (David Pauly).
  3. noun Astronomy The angular deviation, as observed from the sun, of a planet from its perihelion.

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  • The data collected by people who've passed through the anomaly are a case in point. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • Nor do I think, as some would-be schismatics in our organization do, that the world beyond the anomaly is a sort of trial earth, a rough draft of the real world that was later created for us to inhabit. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • It follows that the anomaly is a means of traveling through time rather than to another universe in another dimension. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • As for those who wonder if the anomaly might not be of diabolical rather than divine origin, that it is an infernal lure or trap—or, to say it another way, that just because we can travel through time doesn't mean we should or we're supposed to —I can only counter with my firm belief that the anomaly is the means by which we will at last and for all time rout the scientific establishment. —  AnalogSF,Mar2004
  • But this anomaly is the strongest indicator we have that this is real-time dreaming. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
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  1. from Latin anomalia, from Greek ἀνωμαλία, irregularity, unevenness, from ἀνώμαλος, uneven: see anomalous.
 

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