aberration
pronunciation
How to pronounce aberration in British English:
UK [ˌæbəˈreɪʃn]
How to pronounce aberration in American English:
US [ˌæbəˈreʃən]
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- Noun:
- a state or condition markedly different from the norm
- a disorder in one's mental state
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
Word Origin
- aberration (n.)
- 1590s, "a wandering, straying," from Latin aberrationem (nominative aberratio) "a wandering," noun of action from past participle stem of aberrare "to wander out of the way, lose the way, go astray," from ab- "away" (see ab-) + errare "to wander" (see err). Meaning "deviation from the normal type" first attested 1846.
Example
- 1. President nicolas sarkozy has called it an " economic aberration " .
- 2. Watch out for the occasional centaur-like aberration spawned from infested settlements .
- 3. Some of his relatives were germanophiles , regarding the nazi period as a terrible aberration and holidaying often in the federal republic .
- 4. As for indonesia , the behaviour of its soldiers and their local allies was sadly not an aberration .
- 5. Researchers would like to test whether treating colon cancer patients who have both the braf mutation and the egfr aberration with the melanoma drug and the egfr drug might halt the cancer .