Anomaly vs Departure - What's the difference?
anomaly | departure |
A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 43
Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
(science) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
(astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
(biology) A defect or malformation.
(quantum physics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
(dated) An irregularity or disproportion.
The act of departing or something that has departed.
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, title= A deviation from a plan or procedure.
* Prescott
(euphemism) A death.
* Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 6
* Sir Philip Sidney
(navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
(legal) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
(obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between anomaly and departure
is that anomaly is a deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal while departure is the act of departing or something that has departed.anomaly
English
(wikipedia anomaly)Noun
(anomalies)- This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
- He is an anomaly among his friends.
Synonyms
* (deviation from the norm) abnormality, deviance, deviation, exception, inconsistency, irregularity, phenomenonDerived terms
() * anomaloscope * anomalous * eccentric anomaly * flyby anomaly * mean anomaly * true anomalyExternal links
* * *departure
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure .}}
- any departure from a national standard
- The time of my departure is at hand.
- His timely departure barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
- (Bouvier)
- no other remedy but absolute departure