anomaly

About 3.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
2. noun Something or someone that is strange or unusual.

   He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.

3. noun Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.

   She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.

4. noun Any of various angular distances.
5. noun A defect or malformation.
6. noun A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
7. noun An irregularity or disproportion.

Similar words

anomalousness unusual person anomalous abnormality abnormal aberration freak irregularity discrepancy incoherence

Often followed by

of in is that and was which to detection

Word family

anomalies