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Aberration
"Aberration" in a Sentence (15 examples)
It wasn't an aberration.
Investigators learned that the telescope’s primary mirror suffered from a production error, its edges too flat by 0.003 mm, resulting in an optical problem called spherical aberration.
Since the magnitude of the spherical aberration was well-defined, engineers designed a set of mirrors that astronauts could place aboard Hubble during the previously planned first servicing mission.
The unexpected by-product of the calculation was that Earth may be unique, actually an aberration among myriads of dead, uninhabitable worlds.
Owing to a strange mental aberration, Tom forgot his own name.
Such a sanction is an inconceivable aberration in the application of international law.
Aberration isn't normal.
the aberration of youth
aberrations from theory
aberration of character
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A derailment which occurred on April 18 last between Laindon and Pitsea on the London Tilbury & Southend Line was caused by a lengthman who in a moment of aberration clipped a set of spring catch points in the derailing position, concludes Col. J. R. H. Robertson in his report […].
Our ancien regime, like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the party would never end. 2016 shook their historicist faith in the arc of the moral universe but by 2020 they hoped to write Trump off as an aberration. In retrospect, 2020 was the aberration, the rearguard action of a struggling regime and its struldbrugg ruler.
Occasional aberrations of intellect
We see indeed the aberrations of unruly appetite
Only by submitting to the aberration could the human traders travel safely through the territory of Zularn.
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