monochromatic aberration

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Any of several defects in the optical image due to the nature of a lens, including spherical, coma, curvature, and distortion aberrations.

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It was Gurung's use of warm hues that provided a refreshing breath of air amid the mostly monochromatic palette thus far.
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The Civil War was clearly an aberration in American society and of profound significance.
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In fact, the very notion of restraint has become an aberration.
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His actions may have been an aberration but his thinking, sadly, is not.
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Instead, the Republican Party had morphed into a winning, albeit monochromatic, coalition.
Hillary Clinton in 2016: Be Afraid, Republicans|Lloyd Green|February 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Even a thinking machine must have its moments of aberration.
The Secret Witness|George Gibbs
But this easiness is only possible, in promiscuity, which is possibly a worse ill than aberration.
The Natural Philosophy of Love|Remy de Gourmont
Nevertheless it would be imprudent wholly to rule out this form of sexual aberration from the causes of variability of species.
The Natural Philosophy of Love|Remy de Gourmont
The spiritual culture of Greece an aberration of the amazing political impulse towards ἁριστεὑειν.
We Philologists, Volume 8 (of 18)|Friedrich Nietzsche
His instinct, which was stronger than his intelligence, told him that such an aberration was possible.
The Fourth Estate, vol. 2|Armando Palacio Valds