单词 | aberration |
释义 | aberration/ˌabəˈreɪʃ(ə)n /noun 1A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one: they described the outbreak of violence in the area as an aberration I see these activities as some kind of mental aberration...
Synonyms anomaly, deviation, divergence, abnormality, irregularity, variation, digression, freak, rogue, rarity, quirk, oddity, curiosity, mistake abnormality, irregularity, eccentricity, deviation, transgression, straying, lapse, aberrancy 1.1 Biology A characteristic that deviates from the normal type: colour aberrations...
Synonyms disorder, defect, disease, irregularity, instability, derangement, vagary 1.2 Optics The failure of rays to converge at one focus because of a defect in a lens or mirror.The problems with the microlens array design are low light throughput, non-uniform intensity foci, and lens aberrations....
1.3 Astronomy The apparent displacement of a celestial object from its true position, caused by the relative motion of the observer and the object.This was still an astronomical method, but Bradley used observations of the aberration of light from stars. Derivativesaberrational
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin aberratio(n-), from aberrare 'to stray' (see aberrant). |
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