Anomaly

Anomaly may refer to:

Natural

 * Anomaly (natural sciences)
 * Atmospheric anomaly
 * Geophysical anomaly

Medical

 * Congenital anomaly (birth defect), a disorder present at birth
 * Physical anomaly, a deformation of an anatomical structure
 * Congenital vertebral anomaly, any of several malformations of the spine
 * Collie eye anomaly, eye disease of dogs
 * Coronary artery anomaly, a congenital abnormality in the heart
 * Ebstein's anomaly, a congenital heart defect
 * Uhl anomaly, a congenital heart disease affecting the myocardial muscle
 * Vaginal anomalies

Biology

 * Anomalous, a species of moth in the Noctuid family
 * Chromosome anomaly, a disorder caused by a structural error in a chromosome or an atypical number of chromosomes
 * Genetic anomaly, a disorder caused by mutation
 * Teratology, the study of developmental anomalies

Physics

 * Anomalous diffusion, the movement of molecules from a region of lower concentration to a region of higher concentration
 * Anomalous dispersion (optics), when the speed of an electromagnetic wave increases with increasing frequency
 * Anomalon, a hypothetical type of nuclear matter that shows an anomalously large reactive cross section
 * 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, in quantum physics
 * Gravitational anomaly, an effect in quantum mechanics that invalidates the general covariance of some theories of general relativity
 * Konishi anomaly, the violation of the conservation of the Noether current associated with certain transformations
 * Mixed anomaly, an effect in quantum mechanics
 * Parity anomaly, associated with parity

Astronomy

 * In astronomy, an anomaly of an elliptical orbit, generally measured with respect to an apsis, usually the periapsis
 * Anomalous precession, another term for "apsidal precession"
 * 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 uncrewed 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

Fictional entities

 * 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" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2003 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
 * The Anomaly, a 2014 film
 * Anomaly (comics), a villain in DC Comics
 * Anomaly (Primeval), a time portal in the TV series Primeval
 * Spatial anomaly, an extraordinary disruption in the space-time continuum in the Star Trek universe
 * The Fortean anomaly, in the work of Charles Fort
 * 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
 * Entities in the SCP universe, often referred to as "anomalies"

Video games

 * Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a real time strategy video game
 * Anomaly Korea
 * Anomaly 2

Publications

 * The Anomalies, a 2003 novel by Joey Goebel
 * Anomaly (series), a 2013 trilogy by Krista McGee
 * Anomaly (graphic novel), by Brian Haberlin
 * The Anomaly (novel), by French author Hervé Le Tellier

Albums

 * Anomaly (Ace Frehley album) (2009)
 * Anomalies (album) (2005), by Cephalic Carnage
 * Anomaly (The Hiatus album) (2010)
 * Anomaly (Lecrae album) (2014)
 * Anomalies, Vol. 1 (2010), by Cave In

Songs

 * "Anna Molly" (a word play on the word "anomaly"), by Incubus
 * "Anomaly", a 2004 song by Psyopus from the album Ideas of Reference
 * "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 & Glory

Technology

 * Anomaly detection, the process of detecting anomalies from the other, relevant data
 * Anomaly in software, any condition that deviates from expectation

Business

 * Market anomaly, a distortion in prices in a financial market
 * Anomaly (advertising agency), a marketing communications agency based in New York

Other uses

 * Anomalistics, the study of scientific anomalies
 * Insult, "Blake you are such an anomaly"
 * Ararat anomaly, an object on Mount Ararat in Turkey claimed to be the remains of Noah's Ark
 * Irregular (disambiguation)
 * Outlier
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