# Anomaly

Anomaly or The Anomaly 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, any shortcut to hyperspace travel in Robert Heinlein's novels of the 1950s, today called wormholes
* 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

### 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. 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

### Video games

* Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a 2011 real time strategy video game
** Anomaly Korea
** Anomaly 2
* Anomaly Collapse, a 2024 turn-based strategy video game

## 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"
* Used as an insult, i.e. "Blake you are such an anomaly"