# Anomaly

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Not to be confused with [Abnormality (behavior)](/source/Abnormality_(behavior)).

**Anomaly**, **The Anomaly** or **Anomalies** may refer to:

## Science

### Natural

- [Anomaly (natural sciences)](/source/Anomaly_(natural_sciences)) - [Atmospheric anomaly](/source/Atmospheric_anomaly) - [Geophysical anomaly](/source/Geophysical_anomaly)

### Medical

- [Congenital anomaly](/source/Congenital_anomaly) (birth defect), a disorder present at birth - [Physical anomaly](/source/Congenital_disorder#Terminology), a deformation of an anatomical structure - [Congenital vertebral anomaly](/source/Congenital_vertebral_anomaly), any of several malformations of the spine - [Collie eye anomaly](/source/Collie_eye_anomaly), eye disease of dogs - [Coronary artery anomaly](/source/Coronary_artery_anomaly), a congenital abnormality in the heart - [Ebstein's anomaly](/source/Ebstein's_anomaly), a congenital heart defect - [Uhl anomaly](/source/Uhl_anomaly), a congenital heart disease affecting the myocardial muscle - [Vaginal anomalies](/source/Vaginal_anomalies)

### Biology

See also: [List of congenital disorders](/source/List_of_congenital_disorders) and [List of genetic disorders](/source/List_of_genetic_disorders)

- [Anomalous](/source/Stilbia_anomala), a species of moth in the Noctuid family
- [Chromosome anomaly](/source/Chromosome_anomaly), a disorder caused by a structural error in a chromosome or an atypical number of chromosomes
- [Genetic anomaly](/source/Genetic_anomaly), a disorder caused by mutation
- [Teratology](/source/Teratology), the study of developmental anomalies

### Physics

- [Anomalous diffusion](/source/Anomalous_diffusion), the movement of molecules from a region of lower concentration to a region of higher concentration
- [Anomalous dispersion](/source/Anomalous_dispersion) (optics), when the speed of an electromagnetic wave increases with increasing frequency
- [Anomalon](/source/Anomalon), a hypothetical type of nuclear matter that shows an anomalously large reactive cross section
- [Anomaly (physics)](/source/Anomaly_(physics)), a failure of a symmetry of a theory's classical action
- [Conformal anomaly](/source/Conformal_anomaly), a quantum phenomenon that breaks the conformal symmetry of the classical theory
- [Chiral anomaly](/source/Chiral_anomaly), an anomalous nonconservation of a chiral current
- [Gauge anomaly](/source/Gauge_anomaly), the effect of quantum mechanics that invalidates the gauge symmetry of a quantum field theory
- [Global anomaly](/source/Global_anomaly), in quantum physics
- [Gravitational anomaly](/source/Gravitational_anomaly), an effect in quantum mechanics that invalidates the general covariance of some theories of general relativity
- [Konishi anomaly](/source/Konishi_anomaly), the violation of the conservation of the Noether current associated with certain transformations
- [Mixed anomaly](/source/Mixed_anomaly), an effect in quantum mechanics
- [Parity anomaly](/source/Parity_anomaly), associated with parity

### Astronomy

- In astronomy, an anomaly of an elliptical orbit, generally measured with respect to an [apsis](/source/Apsis), usually the periapsis
- [Anomalous precession](/source/Apsidal_precession), another term for "apsidal precession"
- [Eccentric anomaly](/source/Eccentric_anomaly), an intermediate value used to compute the position of a celestial object as a function of time
- [Flyby anomaly](/source/Flyby_anomaly), an unexpected energy increase during the flybys of the Earth by various satellites
- [Mean anomaly](/source/Mean_anomaly), a measure of time in the study of orbital dynamics
- [Pioneer anomaly](/source/Pioneer_anomaly), the observed deviation of the trajectories of some uncrewed space probes, and especially Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11
- [South Atlantic Anomaly](/source/South_Atlantic_Anomaly), an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface
- [True anomaly](/source/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)](/source/Anomaly_(comics)), a villain in DC Comics
- Entities in the [SCP](/source/SCP_Foundation) universe, often referred to as "anomalies"

### Fictional features in media

- Anomaly, a rift in the space-time continuum in the television series *[Futurama](/source/Futurama)*
- Anomaly, a time portal in the TV series *[Primeval](/source/Primeval_(TV_series))*
- The [Fortean anomaly](/source/Fortean_anomaly), in the work of Charles Fort
- [Spatial anomaly](/source/Spatial_anomaly), an extraordinary disruption in the space-time continuum in the *Star Trek* universe
- The [Tycho Magnetic Anomaly](/source/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*)](/source/Anomaly_(Star_Trek:_Enterprise)), a 2003 episode of *Star Trek: Enterprise*
- [*The Anomaly* (film)](/source/The_Anomaly_(film)), a 2014 film

### Video and table-top games

- *[Anomaly: Warzone Earth](/source/Anomaly:_Warzone_Earth)*, a 2011 real time strategy video game - *[Anomaly Korea](/source/Anomaly_Korea)* - *[Anomaly 2](/source/Anomaly_2)*
- *[Anomaly Collapse](/source/Anomaly_Collapse)*, a 2024 turn-based strategy video game
- *[Anomalies (Traveller)](/source/Anomalies_(Traveller))*, a 1997 anthology of nine adventures for the role-playing game *Traveller*

### Literature

- *[The Anomalies](/source/The_Anomalies)*, a 2003 novel by Joey Goebel
- [*Anomaly* (series)](/source/Anomaly_(series)), a 2013 trilogy by Krista McGee
- [*Anomaly* (graphic novel)](/source/Anomaly_(graphic_novel)), by Brian Haberlin
- [*The Anomaly* (novel)](/source/The_Anomaly_(novel)), by French author Hervé Le Tellier

### Music

#### Albums

- [*Anomaly* (Ace Frehley album)](/source/Anomaly_(Ace_Frehley_album)) (2009)
- [*Anomalies* (album)](/source/Anomalies_(album)) (2005), by Cephalic Carnage
- [*Anomaly* (The Hiatus album)](/source/Anomaly_(The_Hiatus_album)) (2010)
- [*Anomaly* (Lecrae album)](/source/Anomaly_(Lecrae_album)) (2014)
- *[Anomalies, Vol. 1](/source/Anomalies,_Vol._1)* (2010), by Cave In

#### Songs

- "[Anna Molly](/source/Anna_Molly)" (a word play on the word "anomaly"), by Incubus
- "Anomaly", a 2004 song by Psyopus from the album *[Ideas of Reference](/source/Ideas_of_Reference)*
- "An Anomaly", a 2007 song by [It Prevails](/source/It_Prevails) from the album *The Inspiration*
- "The Anomaly", a 2011 song by Scar Symmetry from the album *[The Unseen Empire](/source/The_Unseen_Empire)*
- "Anomaly", a 2012 song by KB from the album *[Weight & Glory](/source/Weight_%26_Glory)*

## Technology

- [Anomaly detection](/source/Anomaly_detection), the process of detecting anomalies from the other, relevant data
- [Anomaly in software](/source/Anomaly_in_software), any condition that deviates from expectation

## Business

- [Market anomaly](/source/Market_anomaly), a distortion in prices in a financial market
- [Anomaly (advertising agency)](/source/Anomaly_(advertising_agency)), a marketing communications agency based in New York

## Other uses

- [Anomalistics](/source/Anomalistics), the study of scientific anomalies
- [Ararat anomaly](/source/Ararat_anomaly), an object on Mount Ararat in Turkey claimed to be the remains of Noah's Ark
- [Jayson Tatum](/source/Jayson_Tatum), a basketball player nicknamed "The Anomaly"

## See also

- [Irregular (disambiguation)](/source/Irregular_(disambiguation))
- [Outlier](/source/Outlier)

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