{{Distinguish|Abnormality (behavior)}} {{Wiktionary|anomaly|anomalous}} '''Anomaly''', '''The Anomaly''' or '''Anomalies''' may refer to: {{TOC right}}
==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=== {{See also|List of congenital disorders|List of genetic disorders}} *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=== ====Albums<!--Anomaly (album) redirects directly here.-->==== *''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 *{{Look from}} *{{In title}} *{{Look from|Anomalous}} *{{In title|Anomalous}}
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