Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - aberration
Aberration
aberration
n. 1 a departure from what is normal or accepted or regarded as right. 2 a moral or mental lapse. 3 Biol. deviation from a normal type. 4 Optics the failure of rays to converge at one focus because of a defect in a lens or mirror. 5 Astron. the apparent displacement of a celestial body, meteor, etc., caused by the observer's velocity. Etymology: L aberratio (as ABERRANT)
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noun Etymology: Latin aberrare Date: 1594 the fact or an instance of being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state, failure of a mirror, refracting surface, or lens to produce exact point-to-point correspondence between an object and its image, unsoundness or disorder of the mind, a small periodic change of apparent position in celestial bodies due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer, an aberrant individual, ~al adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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