Aberration
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An aberration is something that deviates from the normal way.
Aberration may also refer to:
Biology and medicine
[edit | edit source]- Form (zoology) or aberration, a rare mutant butterfly or moth wing pattern
- Cardiac aberrancy, aberration in the shape of the EKG signal
- Chromosome aberration, abnormal number or structure of chromosomes
Entertainment
[edit | edit source]- Aberration, a DLC for the video game Ark: Survival Evolved
- Aberration (film), a 1997 horror film
- Aberration (EP), by Neurosis, 1989
- Aberrations, or abbies, human-like creatures in the American TV series Wayward Pines
Optics and physics
[edit | edit source]- Astronomical aberration, phenomenon wherein objects appear to move about their true positions in the sky
- Chromatic aberration, failure of a lens to focus all colors on the same point
- Defocus aberration, in which an image is out of focus
- Optical aberration, an imperfection in image formation by an optical system
- Relativistic aberration, the distortion of light at high velocities
- Spherical aberration, which occurs when light rays pass through a spherical lens near the edge
See also
[edit | edit source]- Aberrant (role-playing game), a superhero role-playing game by White Wolf Game Studio
- Aberrancy (geometry), the non-circularity of a curve
- Abomination (Bible), a term used in Bible
- Freak (disambiguation)
- Monster
