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1. Diverge from the expected
   "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman"
    
2. (optics) 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"

Derived forms: aberrated, aberrates, aberrating

Type of: depart, deviate, diverge, vary

Encyclopedia: Aberrate