Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to an anomaly, or to the anomalists.
- In astronomy, pertaining to the anomaly or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
- adjective (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion.
- adjective See under
Month . - adjective the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again.
- adjective See under
Year .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
anomalous - adjective
irregular - adjective astronomy Of or pertaining to an
anomaly (angle of a body from its perihelion)
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Examples
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But the time that the moon goes from one perigee to the next is equal to 27.55 days, known as the "anomalistic month."
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As journalist working in South Los Angeles I'd written about and witnessed police abuse with such regularity that I knew it couldn't be anomalistic.
Sam Slovick: Addicted to Incarceration Sam Slovick 2011
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As journalist working in South Los Angeles I'd written about and witnessed police abuse with such regularity that I knew it couldn't be anomalistic.
Sam Slovick: Addicted to Incarceration Sam Slovick 2011
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Nor are the parapsychology field and a related field, anomalistic psychology, eager to associate themselves with the current craze.
The Haunted: The debate about whether ghosts exist will never be settled, but for paranormal investigator John Warfield, it's all about the search for proof Lauren Wilcox 2010
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Classic SETI supposes that ET will intentionally send radio signals; Davies thinks we should be more focused on detecting anything anomalistic in our astronomical observations.
Searching for aliens 2010
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Unlike the BBC it is not state-sponsored and receives no licence fee; it is not bound to objectivity by a Charter that in return for a pledge of objectivity gives it its increasingly anomalistic and untenably privileged position (in this era of multi-channel broadcasting) of being featherbedded by what is in effect a poll tax on every household in Britain with a television set.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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And like most myths, there are a few anomalistic instances of genuine academic shortcomings among college athletes that perpetuate the image.
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In the cases of parapsychology AND anomalistic psychology (the skeptical study of these supposedly paranormal phenomena) skeptics and proponents of these claims have directly interacted with the subjects.
Telekinesis and Quantum Field Theory Sean 2008
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Evidently the logic is this: debunk the lunatic fringe of an anomalistic field and you've debunked the entire field?
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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This perspective seems to share most of the flaws and none of the virtues of most current programmatic "debunking" of any and all anomalistic and occult subjects from a supposedly "scientific" perspective.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2006
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