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perturbation

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Although the atmosphere was stable overall, it was sensitive to perturbations which caused it to vacillate easily. ▪ But Atkins's introduction and chapters on operators, perturbation theory and group theory are enjoyable. ▪ Extensive, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Perturbation or perturb may refer to: Perturbation theory , mathematical methods that give approximate solutions to problems that cannot be solved exactly Perturbation (geology) , changes in the nature of alluvial deposits over time Perturbation (astronomy) ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French perturbacion "disturbance, confusion" (14c.) and directly from Latin perturbationem (nominative perturbatio ) "confusion, disorder, disturbance," noun of action from past participle stem of perturbare (see perturb ).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perturbation \Per`tur*ba"tion\, n. [L. perturbatio: cf. F. perturbation.] The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind. (Astron.) A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion of a heavenly body, produced by some ...

Usage examples of perturbation.

Excellent in cases of sudden syncope or fainting, such as sometimes require the opening of windows, the dashing on of cold water, the cutting of stays, perhaps, with a scene of more or less tumultuous perturbation and afflux of clamorous womanhood.

But without some sketch of the Presidente, it is impossible fully to understand the perturbation of heart from which Pons suffered.

So they set up a flight plan for one synodic period later, muttering something about perturbation corrections.

I went out with a beating heart, though I could not explain my perturbation, for I did not feel guilty in any way towards Therese, save in that I had not answered the last letter she had written me from Naples, thirteen years ago.

And we know the circuitry and the autocrine perturbations to try, or we know which gene activity perturbations to try that will cause that cell to differentiate into a normal cell type or cause that cell to commit hara-kiri.

I could not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventually of finding for them in the complete work what many have already found-- days and years of growing enlightenment and happy companionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life.

When these thoughts had fully taken possession of Jones, they occasioned a perturbation in his mind, which, in a constitution less pure and firm than his, might have been, at such a season, attended with very dangerous consequences.

This subordination of the stream to the lake is surest to take place with those in whom pure mind most predominates, whose spirit is least roiled by the perturbation of the senses.

I looked at it, and such was the perturbation of my mind, that, though the miniature really represented me as of a cheerful and animated expression, I thought I beheld a dreadful and a threatening visage.

He forgets to smoke, looks at the fire and ponders, lets his pipe out, fills the breast of Mr. Bagnet with perturbation and dismay by showing that he has no enjoyment of tobacco.

From the reports of eyewitnesses it transpires that the seismic waves were accompanied by a violent atmospheric perturbation of cyclonic character.

All the planets revolved around both stars, an arrangement with enough perturbations to make hash out of a standard orbit calculation, and Ferrol gave silent thanks that the team out there had been thinking straight enough to include updated numbers with their tachyon distress call.

And when, in 1841, the great Charles Lyell traveled to America to give a series of lectures in Boston, sellout audiences of three thousand at a time packed into the Lowell Institute to hear his tranquilizing descriptions of marine zeolites and seismic perturbations in Campania.

Excellent in cases of sudden syncope or fainting, such as sometimes require the opening of windows, the dashing on of cold water, the cutting of stays, perhaps, with a scene of more or less tumultuous perturbation and afflux of clamorous womanhood.

To my surprise careful Clara was practicing anachronisms, declaiming about the planets around nearer stars detectable by perturbation of the stellar paths.