Usually means: Deviation from the normal standard.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. anomaly: Merriam-Webster
  2. anomaly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anomaly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anomaly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anomaly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anomaly, anomaly: Wordnik
  7. anomaly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anomaly: Wiktionary
  9. anomaly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anomaly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anomaly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anomaly: Dictionary.com
  13. anomaly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. anomaly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Anomaly (Ace Frehley album), Anomaly (Forteana), Anomaly (Lecrae album), Anomaly (Primeval), Anomaly (The Hiatus album), Anomaly (advertising agency), Anomaly (communications agency), Anomaly (natural sciences), Anomaly (physics), Anomaly (series), Anomaly, The Anomaly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Anomaly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. anomaly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. anomaly: Rhymezone
  19. anomaly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. anomaly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. anomaly: FreeDictionary.org
  22. anomaly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. anomaly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. anomaly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. anomaly: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anomaly: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Anomaly: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ANOMALY: Accounting Glossary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Anomaly: Investopedia
  4. anomaly: Legal dictionary
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anomaly: Netlingo
  2. Anomaly (physics), anomaly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. anomaly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Anomaly: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. anomaly: Medical dictionary
  6. Anomaly: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. anomaly: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Anomaly: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anomaly: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anomaly)

▸ noun:  A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
▸ noun:  Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
▸ noun:  (sciences) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
▸ noun:  (biology) A defect or malformation.
▸ noun:  (quantum mechanics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
▸ noun:  (dated) An irregularity or disproportion.

Similar:
anomalousness, unusual person, anomoly, anomalism, deviant, straggle, deviance, aberrancy, aberration, deviation, more...

Opposite:
normal, regular, typical, usual, commonplace, standard

Types:
optical, magnetic, gravitational, electrical, radiation, sonic, more...

Phrases:
Magnetic anomaly, congenital anomaly, Gravity anomaly, Anomaly detection, true anomaly, more...

Adjectives:
positive, congenital, apparent, strange, developmental, curious, rare, magnetic, common, true, negative


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Similar:
anomalousness, unusual person, anomoly, anomalism, deviant, straggle, deviance, aberrancy, aberration, deviation, more...

Opposite:
normal, regular, typical, usual, commonplace, standard

Types:
optical, magnetic, gravitational, electrical, radiation, sonic, more...

Phrases:
Magnetic anomaly, congenital anomaly, Gravity anomaly, Anomaly detection, true anomaly, Temperature anomaly, mean anomaly, developmental anomaly, eccentric anomaly, chromosomal anomaly, major anomaly, more...

Adjectives:
positive, congenital, apparent, strange, developmental, curious, rare, magnetic, common, true, negative



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