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aberration

noun

Reveal meaning and examples

A departure from what is normal or expected.

The late arrival was an aberration in her otherwise punctual record.

Dictionary practice example.

An archive volunteer noticed an anomaly in a box of carefully numbered photographs: two unrelated pictures carried the same identification code. She initially treated the duplicate as an aberration in an otherwise orderly catalog.

From One Oddity or a Larger Pattern?.

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