ABERRATION
\ˌabəɹˈe͡ɪʃən], \ˌabəɹˈeɪʃən], \ˌa_b_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ABERRATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A partial alienation of reason.
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A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.
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The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.
By Oddity Software
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A partial alienation of reason.
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A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.
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The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The passage of a fluid of the living body into an order of vessels not destined for it. In this sense it is synonymous with the Error Loci of Boerhaave.
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The flow of a fluid towards an organ different from that to which it is ordinarily directed; as in cases of vicarious hemorrhage. Aberrations of sense or judgment are certain errors in the perceptions, or certain derangements of the intellectual faculties. The word is used in optics to designate the dispersion of the rays of light in passing through a lens.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Any deviation from the normal course.
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In optics, the deviation of the rays of light from the principal focus of a curved lens or speculum.
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See mental a.
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An abnormal determination of one of the fluids of the body, especially the blood, to a part, as in vicarious menstruation; a metastasis.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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