Aberration的意思|Aberration的解释-里氏词典

aberration [`æbə'reʃən]

n. 离开正路, 偏离, 畸变, 光行差, 心理失常, 色差

[化] 光行差; 像差

[医] 象差; 迷行, 迷乱; 精神迷乱; 畸变(生物)

A mental or moral twist, aberration, or deviation.
不正常精神或道德上的扭曲、变态或歪曲
A mental deviation or aberration.
神经错乱或精神变态
She hit him in a moment of aberration.
她一时精神失常打了他。

aberration

[ noun ]

a state or condition markedly different from the norm

<noun.state>

a disorder in one's mental state

<noun.state>

an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

<noun.phenomenon>

Aberration \Ab`er*ra"tion\, n. [L. aberratio: cf. F. aberration.
See {Aberrate}.]
1. The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or
moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
``The aberration of youth.'' --Hall. ``Aberrations from
theory.'' --Burke.

2. A partial alienation of reason. ``Occasional aberrations
of intellect.'' --Lingard.

Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a
single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form.
--I. Taylor.

3. (Astron.) 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.

4. (Opt.) 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.

5. (Physiol.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts
not appropriate for it.

6. (Law) The producing of an unintended effect by the
glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A
glances and strikes B.

Syn: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; alienation;
mania; dementia; hallucination; illusion; delusion. See
{Insanity}.

Mr. Lipper says his primary contribution to the movie and book was to convince the filmmakers that Wall Street isn't just a giant "casino," and that insider trading is an "aberration."
Except for an aberration in October, a U.S. export boom has helped keep the deficit on a narrowing trend since July.
The "galloping pace" of the 1980s was an aberration, a one-time dash to catch up with the rest of the country, says Robert Wenger, an economist with Southern Co., the big electric utility holding company.
"I guess my greatest fear about Calvin Rhodes is that he's not simply an aberration but that he's a kind of character we may see proliferate around us in our lives," Medoff says.
"It is an aberration to speak of democracy and carry out aggression," she said.
But the Germans, who for more than a year have resisted world demands for a more expansionary policy, argue that the first quarter was an aberration.
We are glad to report that Alice doesn't live there any more, that last winsome aberration is succeeded by this gloriously witty tale of love and death.
The 1985-86 cycle was an aberration, federation officials say, because they were late starting their fund-raising efforts.
In historical terms, this is an aberration.
An aberration similar to what they called evidence of ozone loss near the ozone hole also appears in their data from the Northern Hemisphere, but they do not claim ozone loss there, he said.
But the report called the investigation an "aberration" and said it did not reflect "significant FBI political or ideological bias," a point noted by both CISPES and the FBI.
While government officials said the May figures could represent a slight aberration, they reported that the underlying growth rate of British manufacturing output currently is 4.5% a year.
We have the financial clout to weather this short-term aberration." Digital's expected loss comes when its expense base has already been cut.
Now, the economists are starting to view the four-month period as an aberration in a longer-term decline.
"I think the AMR loss is somewhat of an aberration as far as the rest of the industry," which won't be affected as much by foreign currency fluctuations, he said.
"The poor performance last Christmas was an aberration," said Mr. Mann.
"What you're seeing in the last week is an aberration," says Lewis Ranieri, vice-chairman of Salomon Brothers Inc.
"The central view is that although the flare-up of prices early in 1989 was an aberration, price behavior overall will not improve appreciably until mid-1990," the report cautioned.
Sudden withrawal of a sizable amount of stock investments, for example, could produce an aberration in the Dow Jones industrial average comparable in in destructiveness to last year's San Francisco earthquake.
He figures Monday's harsh selling, which drove the market down 3%, was an aberration.
Unit trusts need desperately to make their investors some money. History certainly suggests that the past five years of poor performance has been an aberration.
"The error that we discovered is one that leads to an essentially pure spherical aberration, and that's relatively easy to correct," Allen said.
It seems an aberration, an historical hiccup.
Executives of the Merc view any trading based on rumors as a "momentary aberration," according to Neal L. Wolkoff, senior vice president for regulatory affairs and operations.
"But I think we have to start looking at the high-inflation period of the 1970s as an aberration rather than the norm.
The ultimate question is whether the capital gains volatility will be a recurring problem or an aberration.
"There's not going to be a resurgence of inflation very soon," he predicted, calling February's bigger-than-expected jump in consumer prices an aberration.
An historical and geographical aberration, it is the result of commercial conflict between British and French colonial trading interests.
Mr. Linden said it is too early to tell whether consumers' concern about jobs is "a temporary aberration or if consumers know something the U.S. Labor Department has yet to learn."
However, economists later dismissed the significance of the reading as a technical aberration, allowing Treasuries to recover.

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