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anomalous
adjective
Reveal meaning and examples
Inconsistent with what is usual or expected.
An anomalous page number suggested that a leaf was missing.
Dictionary practice example.
A campus print team noticed that one poster had emerged with a narrow stripe. Their first hypothesis was that the uploaded image contained the stripe, but the original file looked clean. The result was anomalous because the other posters from the same session had no such mark.
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