Anomaly vs. Inconsistency — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Anomaly and Inconsistency
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Anomaly
Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
Inconsistency
The fact or state of being inconsistent
The inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour
Anomaly
One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify
"Both men are anomalies.
Inconsistency
The state or quality of being inconsistent.
Anomaly
(Astronomy) The angular deviation, as observed from the sun, of a planet from its perihelion.
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Inconsistency
Something inconsistent
Many inconsistencies in your proposal.
Anomaly
A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
Inconsistency
The state of being inconsistent.
Anomaly
Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
Inconsistency
(logic) An incompatibility between two propositions that cannot both be true.
Anomaly
(science) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
Inconsistency
The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility.
There is a perfect inconsistency between that which is of debt and that which is of free gift.
Anomaly
(astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
Inconsistency
Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
Anomaly
(biology) A defect or malformation.
Inconsistency
Lack of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.
Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Anomaly
(quantum physics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
Inconsistency
The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
Anomaly
(dated) An irregularity or disproportion.
Inconsistency
The quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts
Anomaly
Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.
We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men.
As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.
Anomaly
The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.
Anomaly
Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.
Anomaly
Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
Anomaly
A person who is unusual
Anomaly
(astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
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