Aberration
[,æbə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or ['æbə'reʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image.
(noun.) a disorder in one's mental state.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
(n.) A partial alienation of reason.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.
(n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.
整理:米莉
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Deviation, divergence, wandering, rambling, departure.[2]. Irregularity, eccentricity, singularity, peculiarity, strangeness, unconformity, anomaly, abnormity, monstrosity.[3]. Illusion, delusion, hallucination, monomania, self-deception.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Wandering, divergence, deviation, desultoriness, rambling, disconnectedness,hallucination, inconsecutiveness, idiocy, insanity, exception, abnormity
ANT:Uniformity, consecutiveness, continuity, connectedness, principle, law, order,type, norm, project, line, tenor, progression, rectilinearity, regularity
整理:威廉
例句/造句/用法:
- It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The correction for the aberration of light is said by Muller not to be perfect even in that most perfect organ, the human eye. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- No explanation save mental aberration can cover the facts. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Concussion of the brain, superinducing total mental aberration. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He was a very pleasant fellow but with bad political aberrations. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Have those gentle eyes, those channels of the soul lost their meaning, or do they only in their glare disclose the horrible tale of its aberrations? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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