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| Matching Terms: | | aberration, aberrational
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- [v] diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration, as in optics; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens"
- [v] diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman"
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| | See Also: | | depart, deviate, diverge, vary |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ab"er*rate\, v. i. [L. aberratus, p. pr. of aberrare;
ab + errare to wander. See {Err}.]
To go astray; to diverge. [R.]
Their own defective and aberrating vision. --De
Quincey.
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