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aberrating

aberrating is the present participle and gerund 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 aberrating

What is aberrating the present participle and gerund of?
Aberrating is the present participle and gerund of aberrate.

Words near aberrating in the dictionary

  1. aberrants
  2. aberrate
  3. aberrated
  4. aberrates
  5. aberratic
  6. aberrating
  7. aberratio lactis
  8. aberratio testis
  9. aberration
  10. aberration of light
  11. aberrational

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