ANOMALY

'Anomaly' may refer to:
Refers to a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form. Anything that may occur less than 50% of the time

Contents

Astronomy

Geophysics

Medicine

Quantum physics

Star Trek

Religion

Other

See also

Astronomy

★ Eccentric anomaly, the angle between the direction of periapsis and the current position of an object on its orbit

★ Flyby anomaly, an unexpected energy increase during Earth flybys of satellites

★ Mean anomaly, a measure of time in the study of orbital dynamics

★ Pioneer anomaly, the observed deviation of the trajectories of various unmanned spacecraft

★ South Atlantic Anomaly, the region where Earth's inner van Allen radiation belt makes its closest approach to the planet's surface

★ True anomaly, the angle between the direction of periapsis and the current position of an object on its orbit

Geophysics

★ Bouguer anomaly, an anomaly in gravimetry

★ Free-air anomaly, the gravity anomaly that has been computed for latitude and corrected for elevation of the station

★ Gravity anomaly, the difference between the observed gravity and a value predicted from a model

★ Iridium anomaly, a very rare element in the Earth's crust

★ Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, a territory rich in iron ores located within Kursk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast, and Oryol Oblast

Medicine

★ Congenital vertebral anomaly, a collection of malformations of the spine in animals and infants

★ Collie eye anomaly, a congenital, inherited, bilateral eye disease of dogs involving the retina, choroid, and sclera

★ Coronary artery anomaly, a congenital abnormality in the coronary anatomy of the heart

★ Ebstein's anomaly, a congenital heart defect in which the opening of the tricuspid valve is displaced towards the right ventricle of the heart

★ Uhl anomaly, a very seldom congenital heart disease with a partial or total loss of the myocard muscle in the righter ventricle

Quantum physics

★ Anomaly (physics), the 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, the anomalous nonconservation of a chiral current

★ Gauge anomaly, an effect of quantum mechanics that invalidates the gauge symmetry of a quantum field theory

★ Global anomaly, an anomaly in quantum physics

★ Gravitational anomaly, an effect of quantum mechanics that invalidates the general covariance of a theory of general relativity

★ Mixed anomaly, an effect of quantum mechanics

★ Parity anomaly, an anomaly associated with parity

Star Trek

★ "Anomaly" (''Enterprise'' episode), a third season episode of ''Star Trek: Enterprise''

★ Spatial anomaly, a very broad term for any sort of extraordinary disruption in the space-time continuum in the fictional universe of Star Trek

Religion

★ Ararat anomaly, an object on Mount Ararat claimed to be Noah's Ark

Other

★ Anomaly (comics), a DC Comics villain

★ Konishi anomaly, the violation of the conservation of the Noether current associated with certain transformations

★ Market anomaly, a price distortion on a financial market

★ Anomaly in software, everything that differs from expectation. This expectation can result from a document or from a persons notion or experiences.

★ Anomaly (music), a Danish rock'n'metal band

★ Time anomaly, a fictional phenomena from the TV series ''Primeval''

★ Anomalies, a musical album by Cephalic Carnage.

★ Anomalies, small areas in the fictional game which have different effects on the game environment.

★ Anna-Molly, a song by Incubus whose title sounds like "anomaly" when sung. It refers to "a woman who may or may not exist in real life".

See also

★ Anomalous phenomenon

★ Irregular