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Aberration comes from Latin roots meaning what?

aberration

[ab-uh-ray-shuhn] / ˌæb Ι™ΛˆreΙͺ ΚƒΙ™n /




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At that speed, relativistic light aberration becomes important.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

It is a race to 106 - and the more time elapses, the more chance Infantino can persuade his former allies this was just an aberration.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

“Creep” is like an aberration — it wasn’t really a Radiohead song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Around 20 activists entered a pool in a Brussels park on Wednesday to protest the absence of designated outdoor swimming areas in the Belgian capital, calling it an aberration in the midst of a heatwave.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

And if they know I have it, they might do something to alter the force field so I can t see the aberration anymore.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

If they detected any aberrations, they’d tweak the machines after the fact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The fires, the floods, the cascading disasters, aren’t aberrations we’ll overcome and move past, but rather the conditions under which we now live, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

"Studies suggest these aberrations in the vortex are happening more often in a warming world, which favors more frequent winter extremes," said Francis.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

And mind you, those guys on my road are anything but aberrations.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025

But despite these aberrations he seemed to be accepted as an islander, simply because he had called Auntie Braxton “Trudy,” a name nobody had used for her since she was a young woman.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson




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