anomalistic

comparative more anomalistic · superlative most anomalistic

1. Anomalous.
2. Irregular.
3. astronomyOf 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. human sciencesPertaining to anomalism.