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aberrates

aberrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of aberrate.

Meaning of aberrate

Verb

aberrate (third-person singular simple present aberrates, present participle aberrating, simple past and past participle aberrated)

  1. (intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.
    • […] the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis […]1765, Peter Dollond, letter to James Short dated 7 February, 1765, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55
  2. (transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of.
    • He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action.1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104

Questions about aberrates

What is aberrates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Aberrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of aberrate.

Words near aberrates in the dictionary

  1. aberrant salience
  2. aberrantly
  3. aberrants
  4. aberrate
  5. aberrated
  6. aberrates
  7. aberratic
  8. aberrating
  9. aberratio lactis
  10. aberratio testis
  11. aberration

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