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[ UK /ˌæbəɹˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌæbɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a state or condition markedly different from the norm
  2. an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
  3. a disorder in one's mental state

How To Use aberration In A Sentence

  • The State Department contacted American embassies around the world to make sure that they repeated the line that it was an aberration and not in line with American ‘values.’
  • Yes, there were aberrations like the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, but mostly it was a period of peace.
  • The exact particulars of the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge — “a white-livered skunk,” and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happines. The War in the Air
  • In two cases, courts have struck down such laws, but these cases seem aberrational.
  • Chromosomal abnormalities included gonosomal aberrations in 5 cases.
  • Higher order spherical aberration in apochromats is a result of strongly curved lens surfaces.
  • For example, acesulfame-K induces chromosomal aberrations; sucralose is associated with several effects in animals, is weakly mutagenic, and increases the glycosylated hemoglobin in diabetic patients.
  • However, if the most recent 50 years in the history of war have truly been dictated by ideological instead of resource motivations, the period would represent a unique aberration.
  • He denounced democracy as a psychopathic expression of inferiority and compromise as an aberration that must be crushed out of existence.
  • Owing to a strange mental aberration he forgot his own name.
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