Aberration is valid Scrabble Word

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10 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for ABERRATION in dictionary:

NOUN:

an instance of being aberrant
a characteristic that deviates from the normal type
the failure of rays to converge at one focus because of a defect in a lens or mirror.
the apparent displacement of a celestial object from its true position, caused by the relative motion of the observer and the object.
a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one
The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
A partial alienation of reason.
A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer\'s motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4\'\', and in the latter, to 0.3\'\'. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.
The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.
The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.

The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
a disorder in one\'s mental state
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state

Words related to ABERRATION

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Words that contain ABERRATION

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How to use ABERRATION in a sentence

The Libyan adventure, considered now in the serene light of reason, cannot be looked on as anything but an aberration.
My examination extended through periods of his unconsciousness and aberration.
Diseased brains, corrupt hearts, and impossible desires go far to constitute aberration of intellect.
The moral compasses that are too short for the aberration may be, must be, unequal to the orbit.
Symptoms of aberration there showed themselves, which became very decided after his return.
Whatever the impulse to guilt, some suppression or aberration of the reason may ever be alleged and admitted.
It was but a momentary aberration, and is recorded only to show that, however remorseful he felt afterwards, there was life in our Tommy still.
The Protestant encourages activity, though he knows that where there is much activity there will be some aberration.
And what further and deeper aberration might it not yet produce? This apprehension had not been without efficacy in determining me to summary means.
And it soothes the mind of the lunatic during the lucid intervals of the aberration of his intellects, and tends more than anything else to restore him to reason.

Wenham, who had long ago by this means corrected spherical aberration in microscopic objective.
Be that, however, as it may, there is no question but that he is occasionally seized with fits of mental aberration.
This is called spherical aberration, and to it is due the want of distinctness which is frequently noticed around the edges of pictures taken in the camera.
To determine whether the spherical aberration is corrected, the telescope should be directed towards a star of the third or fourth magnitude, and focussed for distinct vision.
Randolph in all those which have heretofore merited approbation, carefully avoiding to mention his late aberration.
Time, alas, goes on, and that fine intellect, which had ever been unclouded, began to give signs of aberration.
The merchant would say but little, and that was so incoherent and unintelligible, it was evident he was laboring under mental aberration.
Jim had a new suit of black broadcloth, due to a temporary aberration of our local Solomon who ran the clothing store.
But the severest critic of the Frog race could not detect in their manners a single aberration from the moral law tacitly recognised by themselves.
He knows the secret sin, the mental act, the spiritual aberration.
Conrad penetrates to the motive concealed in it, the psychological spring and basis of it, the whole fabric of weakness, habit and aberration underlying it.
I can now look back upon the episode with equanimity and thankfulness for my near escape from the consequences of what was no more than an aberration of the senses.
He had awakened as from a dream, after so many years of aberration of intellect.
The correction for the aberration of light is said, on high authority, not to be perfect even in that most perfect organ, the eye.
In the region of emotion and of beauty, there may be similar aberration, if these are not grasped in their vital nature, in organic relation to the whole of life.
Had it been otherwise it would have even seemed a major aberration to the queer folk there.
All fanaticism springs from an aberration of the mind, from a defect in reasoning.
As the earth moves faster in some parts of its orbit than others, this aberration is sometimes greater than at others.
Yet it may happen that by some aberration of internal development or of external influence this conversion of energy may at one point or another fail to be completely effected.
And when even in those countries the authority of the Pope is rejected, he condemns modern civilisation as an aberration.
To lie, or touch what was not his own, was beyond the pale of pardon, or mercy, and a solitary aberration was a stain for life.
Soon after the birth of her third child, there was discovered aberration of mind in Mrs.
None ever knew an aberration of virtue in a daughter of one.
Holden, and never, in conversation with any one, did he make allusion to his aberration of mind.

Similar words containing ABERRA without suffix tion

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