What is "perturbations"

Usage examples of "perturbations".

If the perambulator is not freed as soon as possible, the frequency of the resultant perturbations will increase and we run the risk of becoming encased in permanent change.

Remember what I told you, that unless it is freed, the perambulator's perturbations will grow steadily more intense, until we run the risk of being locked in permanent change.

Unless something's done to stop it, these perturbations, as Clothahump calls them, will keep getting worse.

It was a reminder, Clothahump declared, that not all the perambulator's perturbations need necessarily have harmful consequences.

What he needed now was a song that would enable him to make the effects of selected perturbations permanent.

My immediate concern is that we may see perturbations directed at us specifically.

The all-encompassing perturbations usually begin quite far from the perambulator itself.

Regardless of whether or not this was intended to stop us or was one more in the series of general perturbations, it was more serious than most.

As the perambulator's frustration and agitation grows, its perturbations are likely to become more and more dangerous.

Now it is foolishness or misery which is the cause of these perturbations in the case of men, for we are not yet blessed in the possession of that perfection of wisdom which is promised to us at last, when we shall be set free from our present mortality.

But the gods, they say, are free from these perturbations, because they are not only eternal, but also blessed.

Some say that even the wise man is subject to these perturbations, though moderated and controlled by reason, which imposes laws upon them, and so restrains them within necessary bounds.

And if this be true, then there is no difference, or next to none, between the opinion of the Stoics and that of the other philosophers regarding mental passions and perturbations, for both parties agree in maintaining that the mind and reason of the wise man are not subject to these.

And thus the mind in which this resolution is well grounded suffers no perturbations to prevail with it in opposition to reason, even though they assail the weaker parts of the soul.

And the following century or two should proceed according to calculations, unless unexpected perturbations appear.