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Anomaly 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 in which the opening of the tricuspid valve is displaced
*** 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 is 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, an 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, an 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 unmanned 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

Culture

Fictional entities

*Anomaly, a rift in the space-time continuum in the television series ''Futurama''
*Anomaly, any shortcut to hyperspace travel in Robert Heinlein's novels of the 1950s, today called wormholes
* "Anomaly" (''Star Trek: Enterprise''), a 2003 episode of ''Star Trek: Enterprise''
*''The Anomaly'', a 2014 film
*Anomaly (comics), a villain in DC Comics
*Anomaly (Primeval), a time portal in the TV series ''Primeval''
*Spatial anomaly, an extraordinary disruption in the space-time continuum in the ''Star Trek'' universe
*The Fortean anomaly, in the work of Charles Fort
*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
*Entities in the SCP universe are often referred to as "anomalies"

Video games

*'' Anomaly: Warzone Earth'', a real time strategy video game
**'' Anomaly Korea''
**''Anomaly 2''

Publications

*'' The Anomalies'', a 2003 novel by Joey Goebel
* Anomaly (series), a 2013 trilogy by Krista McGee
* ''Anomaly'' (graphic novel), a graphic novel by Brian Haberlin
* ''The Anomaly'' (novel), a novel by French author Hervé Le Tellier

Music

Albums

* ''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
*Insult, "Blake you are such an anomaly"
*Ararat anomaly, an object on Mount Ararat in Turkey claimed to be the remains of Noah's Ark
*Irregular (disambiguation)
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