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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

“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

Most media coverage treated this as an unfortunate aberration in what is otherwise settled science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Like the rest of the world, the store is a slight aberration of normal.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

But we also want to move away from a cultural view that treats men as the default and women as aberrations, or at least variations on a male norm.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

It was expected these aberrations would cost Lewis a World Cup place, but McDermott kept faith – now is the time to reward that.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

In their world, aberrations were as much a part of nature as grace.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison


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