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perturbations

perturbations is the plural of perturbation.

Meaning of perturbation

Noun

perturbation (countable and uncountable, plural perturbations)

  1. (uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed.
    • Reſtore your ſelues, vnto your temper, Fathers; / And, vvithout perturbation, heare me ſpeake: […]1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act IIII
  2. (countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system).
    • Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Perturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it was with Iulius Cæſar, and Septimius Seuerus.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Youth and Age. XLII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 247–248
  3. (countable) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies.

Questions about perturbations

What is perturbations the plural of?
Perturbations is the plural of perturbation.

Words near perturbations in the dictionary

  1. perturbates
  2. perturbating
  3. perturbation
  4. perturbation theory
  5. perturbational
  6. perturbations
  7. perturbatious
  8. perturbative
  9. perturbatively
  10. perturbativity
  11. perturbator

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