n 1  :  failure of a mirror, refracting surface, or lens to produce exact point-to-point correspondence between an object and its image  2  :  unsoundness or disorder of the mind  3  :  an aberrant organ or individual ab*er*ra*tion*al adj 
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  abor·tion  abra·sion 
 
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