Anomaly, The Anomaly or Anomalies may refer to:

Science

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

Arts and media

Fictional characters

  • Anomaly (comics), a villain in DC Comics
  • Entities in the SCP universe, often referred to as "anomalies"

Fictional features in media

  • Anomaly, a rift in the space-time continuum in the television series Futurama
  • Anomaly, a time portal in the TV series Primeval
  • The Fortean anomaly, in the work of Charles Fort
  • Spatial anomaly, an extraordinary disruption in the space-time continuum in the Star Trek universe
  • 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

Film and television

  • "Anomaly" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2003 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
  • The Anomaly (film), a 2014 film

Video and table-top games

  • Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a 2011 real time strategy video game
  • Anomaly Korea
  • Anomaly 2
  • Anomaly Collapse, a 2024 turn-based strategy video game
  • Anomalies (Traveller), a 1997 anthology of nine adventures for the role-playing game Traveller

Literature

  • 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

Music

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  • 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
  • Ararat anomaly, an object on Mount Ararat in Turkey claimed to be the remains of Noah's Ark
  • Jayson Tatum, a basketball player nicknamed "The Anomaly"

See also

  • Irregular (disambiguation)
  • Outlier