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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. diverge from the expected;
- Example: "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman"

2. diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration;
- Example: "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Aberrate \Ab"er*rate\, v. i. [L. aberratus, p. pr. of aberrare; ab + errare to wander. See Err.] To go astray; to diverge. [R.] [1913 Webster] Their own defective and aberrating vision. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

aberrate v 1: diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman" 2: diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens"