Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Perturbation; disturbance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Disturbance; perturbation.
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- noun
perturbation
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Examples
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Just perturbance at another worthless uttering from a delusional campaign apparently meriting yet another "camp hillary says ..." post.
Harold Ickes: Hillary Will Need "A Few" More Super-Dels Than Obama To Catch Him 2009
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The effect probably helps flyers regain equilibrium when hit by gusts of wind, providing a natural stabilizer that engages before their brains can react to a perturbance, said Hedrick.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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I sense something -- a perturbance in the Force I have not felt since ...
Ewok Cook-Out 2005
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I sense something -- a perturbance in the Force I have not felt since ...
Archive 2005-05-08 2005
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It really can't afford even the slightest perturbance.
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In one corner the Whitney servants, their inward perturbance showing in their white scared faces, sat huddled together, but there was no sign of Mr. and Mrs. Whitney and Kathleen.
I Spy Natalie Sumner Lincoln 1908
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She was not willing to add yet an element of perturbance to the overcharged atmosphere; she would not add disappointment to grief.
Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864
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Just so I don't have a high degree of confidence that our sudden and randomly chosen perturbance of Earth's atmospheric composition is going to lead to an improvement in conditions.
RealClimate 2009
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Just so I don't have a high degree of confidence that our sudden and randomly chosen perturbance of Earth's atmospheric composition is going to lead to an improvement in conditions.
RealClimate 2009
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a change of course down to where the perturbance was taking place.
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