anomalous
IPA: ʌnˈɑmʌɫʌs
adjective
- Deviating from the normal; marked by incongruity or contradiction; aberrant or abnormal.
- Of uncertain or unknown categorization; strange.
- Having anomalies.
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Examples of "anomalous" in Sentences
- The anomalous is more surprising – thus often a lot more interesting – than the normal and mundane.
- "Contact button," she muttered to herself, recalling the anomalous appearance of one on Noneth's hood.
- On April 6, doctors set out to correct a rare condition called anomalous origin of the right coronary artery.
- The same thoroughly well-grounded sagacity and comprehensive appreciation of human life is shown in the treatment of what we may call anomalous characters.
- "The legal status of the Vatican as an independent state may be regarded by some as ridiculous and it can be described as anomalous but it is nevertheless a legal fact and it is frankly fatuous for a lawyer to suggest otherwise."
- There's also the more self-conscious and deliberate indecision where the anomalous is explicable as an artifice of the nomology of narrative itself, a product of those "laws of reality" that cover the use of extended metaphor in fiction.
- After that, Astral head honcho Ian Greenberg - described as an anomalous "tall Jew" by the spunky Ms. Essman - introduced the party's musical guest by mispronouncing the last name of Chantal Kreviazuk, the successful Winnipeg-born chanteuse.
- These are: changing default credentials; avoiding shared credentials; reviewing user accounts; employing application testing and code review; patching comprehensively; assuring HR uses effective termination procedures; enabling application logs and monitoring them; and defining "suspicious" and "anomalous" - be prepared to defend against and detect very determined, well-funded, skilled and targeted attacks.
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