Anomaly

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

Albums

Anomaly (Ace Frehley album) (2009)

Anomalies (album) (2005), by Cephalic Carnage

Anomaly (The Hiatus album) (2010)

Anomaly (Lecrae album) (2014)

Anomalies, Vol.