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How to pronounce anomaly in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms anomalousness
Type of abnormality, abnormalcy
Has types birth defect, congenital defect, congenital disorder, congenital abnormality, congenital anomaly
Derivation anomalist, anomalous
Type Words
Synonyms unusual person
Type of someone, mortal, individual, somebody, soul, person
Has types aberrant, behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath, jekyll and hyde, monster
Derivation anomalist, anomalous
Type Words
Type of position, place

Examples of anomaly

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The jagged peak, a seeming geologic anomaly, took our breath away all afternoon.
From the chron.com
For one thing, the kid finished college, an anomaly amongst top NBA picks today.
From the freep.com
Diane Long smiles when revealing the genetic anomaly that Howie and Chris share.
From the usatoday.com
The current debate on the European Union reflects the anomaly particularly well.
From the economist.com
The anomaly is the legacy of the 1980s Royal Commission on the Electoral System.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The rest of the day went exactly as usual, this incident being the only anomaly.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
The apocalypse of 3 Baruch is the anomaly among post-revolt New Jerusalem texts.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I have not made any claim that the anomaly is 15% in anything that I have typed.
From the ecocentric.blogs.time.com
Later Indonesia declared the satellite unusable after an electric power anomaly.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
  • A person who is unusual
  • (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
  • (anomalous) deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"
  • Anomaly is the fifth solo album by former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, released on September 15, 2009. It is his first album of new studio material since 1989's Trouble Walkin'. Frehley produced most of the album himself, with Marti Frederiksen producing the Sweet cover "Fox on the Run". ...
  • In celestial mechanics, the term anomaly is used for three angular parameters that define the position of a body in motion along a Keplerian orbit: * True anomaly, the angular position of the body as seen from the focus of attraction; * Eccentric anomaly, the angular position on the ideal circle ...
  • Anomaly is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. He first appeared in Adventures of Superman #539.
  • In quantum physics an anomaly or quantum anomaly is the failure of a symmetry of a theory's classical action to be a symmetry of any regularization of the full quantum theory. ...
  • Primeval is a British science fiction television programme produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures. Created by Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines, who previously created the Walking with... ...