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Traditional English :: aberrant
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aberransy.html - adj. 1 esp. Biol. diverging from the normal type. 2 departing from an accepted standard. aberrance n. aberrancy n. [L aberrare aberrant- (as AB-, errare stray)] |
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Traditional English :: aberration
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aberransy.html - 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. [L aberratio (as ABERRANT)] |
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Traditional English :: aberrant
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aberransy.html - adj. 1 esp. Biol. diverging from the normal type. 2 departing from an accepted standard. aberrance n. aberrancy n. [L aberrare aberrant- (as AB-, errare stray)] |
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Traditional English :: aberration
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aberransy.html - 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. [L aberratio (as ABERRANT)] |
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Traditional English :: Aberdeen Angus
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aberransy.html - n. 1 an animal of a Scottish breed of hornless black beef cattle. 2 this breed. [Aberdeen in Scotland, Angus Scottish county] |
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Traditional English :: Aberdonian
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aberransy.html - adj. & n. --adj. --n. a native or citizen of Aberdeen. [med.L Aberdonia] |
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