Anomaly
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Anomaly may refer to:
Astronomy and celestial mechanics
- In astronomy, an anomaly of an elliptical orbit, generally measured with respect to an apsis, usually the periapsis
- Eccentric anomaly, an intermediate value used to compute the position of a celestial object as a function of time
- Flyby anomaly, an unexpected energy increase during the flybys of the Earth by various satellites
- Mean anomaly, a measure of time in the study of orbital dynamics
- Pioneer anomaly, the observed deviation of the trajectories of some unmanned space probes, and especially Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11
- South Atlantic Anomaly, an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface
- True anomaly, the angle between the direction of periapsis and the current position of an object on its orbit
- Anomalous precession, another term for "apsidal precession"
Natural sciences
Biology
See also: List of congenital disorders and List of genetic disorders
- Congenital anomaly, popularly referred to as a birth defect, a disorder present at birth, the result of an inherited gene mutation, an error during morphogenesis or fetal development, or an environmental factor
- Physical anomaly, a deformation of an anatomical structure
- Congenital vertebral anomaly, any of several malformations of the spine in animals and infants
- Collie eye anomaly, congenital, inherited, bilateral eye disease of dogs involving the retina, choroid, and sclera
- Coronary artery anomaly, congenital abnormality in the coronary anatomy of the heart
- Ebstein's anomaly, congenital heart defect in which the opening of the tricuspid valve is displaced towards the right ventricle of the heart
- Uhl anomaly, very rare congenital heart disease with a partial or total loss of the myocardial muscle in the right ventricle
- Genetic anomaly, a disorder whose ultimate cause is a genetic or chromosomal mutation
- Chromosome anomaly, a disorder whose ultimate cause involves a structural error in a chromosome or an atypical number of chromosomes
- Physical anomaly, a deformation of an anatomical structure
- Teratology, the study of all developmental anomalies
Physics
- Anomaly (physics), a failure of a symmetry of a theory's classical action
- Conformal anomaly, a quantum phenomenon that breaks the conformal symmetry of the classical theory
- Chiral anomaly, an anomalous nonconservation of a chiral current
- Gauge anomaly, the effect of quantum mechanics that invalidates the gauge symmetry of a quantum field theory
- Global anomaly, an anomaly in quantum physics
- Gravitational anomaly, an effect in quantum mechanics that invalidates the general covariance of some theories of general relativity
- Mixed anomaly, an effect in quantum mechanics
- Parity anomaly, an anomaly that is associated with parity
- Konishi anomaly, the violation of the conservation of the Noether current associated with certain transformations
- Anomalons, some odd particle interactions that are seen in some high-energy physics
- Anomalous dispersion (optics), when the speed of an electromagnetic wave increases with increasing frequency
In science fiction
- The Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (TMA) on the Moon in the novel and in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick
- The Fortean anomaly, as in the work of Charles Fort
- Spatial anomaly, broad term in the Star Trek dramas and other works of science fiction for any sort of extraordinary disruption in the space-time continuum
- Anomaly, a rift in the space-time continuum in the television series Futurama
- Anomaly, any shortcut to hyperspace travel in Robert Heinlein's novels of the 1950s, today called wormholes
- Anomaly (comics), a villain in some DC Comics
- "Anomaly" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2003 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
- Anomaly (Primeval), a time portal in the TV series Primeval
- Anomaly (series), a 2013 trilogy by Krista McGee
Music
- Anomaly (Ace Frehley album), a 2009 album by Ace Frehley
- Anomalies (album), a 2005 album by Cephalic Carnage
- Anomaly (The Hiatus album), a 2010 album by The Hiatus
- "Anna Molly" (a word play on the word "anomaly"), a song by Incubus
- "An Anomaly", a 2007 song by It Prevails from the album The Inspiration
- "The Anomaly", a 2011 song by Scar Symmetry from the album The Unseen Empire
- "Anomaly", a 2012 song by KB from the album Weight and Glory
- Anomalies, Vol. 1, a compilation album by the American rock band Cave In
- Anomaly (Lecrae album), a 2014 album by Lecrae
Other
- The Anomaly, a 2014 film
- The Anomalies, a 2003 novel by Joey Goebel
- Anomaly detection, the process of detecting anomalies from the other, relevant data
- Anomaly in software, anything that differs from expectations, whether the expectations resulted from documentation, experiences, or otherwise
- Anomalistics, the study of scientific anomalies
- Ararat anomaly, an object on Mount Ararat in Turkey that some have claimed to be the remains of Noah's Ark
- Market anomaly, a distortion in prices in a financial market
- Anomaly (communications agency), a marketing communications agency based in New York
- Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a real time strategy video game.
- Anomaly (graphic novel), a graphic novel by Brian Haberlin
See also
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