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Anomal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Anomalies [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Anomaliped [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An epithet given to fowls, whose middle toe is united to the exterior by three phalanges, and to the interior by one only.

Anomaliped [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An anomalous footed fowl. [See the adjective.]

Anomaliped [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Anomalipede

Anomaliped [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.

Anomalipede [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having anomalous feet.

Anomalism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An anomaly; a deviation from rule.

Anomalism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An anomaly; a deviation from rule.

Anomalistic [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

ANOMALIS'TIC ,

Anomalistic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.

2. In astronomy, the anomalistic year is the time in which the earth passes through her orbit, which is longer than the tropical year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.

Anomalistic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Anomalistical

Anomalistical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.

2. Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion.

Anomalistically [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

With irregularity.

Anomaloflorous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having anomalous flowers.

Anomalous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Irregular; deviating from a general rule, method or analogy; applied, in grammar, to words which deviate from the common rules of inflection; and in astronomy, to the seemingly irregular motions of the planets; but applied also generally to whatever is irregular; as, an anomalous character; anomalous pronunciation.

Anomalous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.

Anomalously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Irregularly; in a manner different from common rule, method or analogy.

Anomalously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an anomalous manner.

Anomalousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quality of being anomalous.

Anomaly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Irregularity; deviation from the common rule; thus oxen, the plural of ox, is an anomaly in grammar, as the regular plural would be oxes.

2. In astronomy, an irregularity in the motion of a planet, whereby it deviates from the aphelion or apogee.

3. In music, a false scale or interval.

Anomaly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.

2. The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.

3. The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet.

4. Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.