aberrant
IPA: æbˈɛrʌnt
noun
- A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
- (biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.
adjective
- Differing from the norm.
- (sometimes figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
- (botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
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Examples of "aberrant" in Sentences
- More conspicuously aberrant is an example I read over the weekend:
- They rely on families to actually report what they call aberrant behavior.
- Felipe Calderon went on Twitter to express dismay over what he called an "aberrant act of terror and barbarity."
- It also says some civilian supervisors are also at fault for ignoring clear signs of what it called his aberrant behavior.
- You (and Iain Dale) miss the truly shocking thing on the leaflet, namely the aberrant apostrophe after Simon Hughes 'name.
- Species and groups of species which are called aberrant, and which may fancifully be called living fossils, will aid us in forming a picture of the ancient forms of life.
- That suggests that the Washington Post poll, which reported a figure of 21%, was not a fluke or an "outlier," as Joe and pollster-folk like to call aberrant polls that you can't trust.
- This would mean that the morphological criteria on which extant supposed D. arnoldi and D. hololissa have been identified are utterly unreliable: an idea which matches suggestions that 'carapace morphology is sensitive to environmental conditions and that captivity can result in aberrant morphologies' (Palkovacs et al. 2003, p. 1409; see also Gerlach 2004b).
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