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anomalistical

anomalistical is the alternative form of anomalistic.

Meaning of anomalistic

Adjective

anomalistic (comparative more anomalistic, superlative most anomalistic)

  1. Anomalous.
  2. Irregular.
  3. Of or pertaining to an anomaly (the angle of a body from its perihelion).
    • In Plato's time, when Eudoxus set up his brilliant planetary theory, its observational basis and the knowledge of periods etc. was still quite insufficient. For instance, Eudoxus ignored the sun's anomalistic motion in longitude, but he believed in a motion in latitude which does not exist.1953, B. L. van der Waerden, “History of the Zodiac”, in Archiv für Orientforschung, volume 16, page 225
  4. Pertaining to anomalism.

Forms of anomalistical

comparativemore anomalistical
superlativemost anomalistical

Questions about anomalistical

What is anomalistical the alternative form of?
Anomalistical is the alternative form of anomalistic.

Words near anomalistical in the dictionary

  1. anomalisms
  2. anomalist
  3. anomalistic
  4. anomalistic year
  5. anomalistic years
  6. anomalistical
  7. anomalistically
  8. anomalists
  9. anomalite
  10. anomality
  11. anomalocarid

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