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Meaning of ABERRATE

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [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"
  2. [v]  diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman"
 
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 See Also: depart, deviate, diverge, vary

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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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