Perturbation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERTURBATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the action of perturbing
• a cause of anxiety or uneasiness
• a minor deviation in the course of a celestial body, caused by the attraction of a neighbouring body.
• anxiety; mental uneasiness
• a deviation of a system, moving object, or process from its regular or normal state or path, caused by an outside influence
• The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.
• A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion of a heavenly body, produced by some force additional to that which causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are caused by their attraction on each other.
• an unhappy and worried mental state
• (physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly
• activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
• a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset
• the act of causing disorder
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action of perturbing; the state of being perturbed

Words related to PERTURBATION

perturbance17 perturbations17

Words that contain PERTURBATION

perturbations17 imperturbation20 perturbational18 imperturbations21

How to use PERTURBATION in a sentence

• Yet I thought there were signs in him of some perturbation.
• VILLARS And now, my dearest sir, if the perturbation of my spirits will allow me, I will finish my last letter from Clifton Hill.
• Indeed the perturbation was so out of proportion to the size of the calamity that the ladies questioned each other with their eyes.
• It was therefore with no sort of perturbation, that, one day, I heard her ask me to step into her little sitting-room in order to converse about Eudora.
• Eph was in a state of great perturbation at the anticipated change, and he earnestly sought to be permitted to accompany them to the North.
• Bowles, who stood before them in an unmistakable attitude of indecision and perturbation.
• A periodical sun would act as a mere perturbation in the gradual decline of heat.
• As she did so, her heart sank, for now she was face to face with a difficulty which had not, in her state of mental perturbation, occurred to her.
• She perceived, as I imagine, the slight estimation in which I held her, and this did not a little increase the perturbation of her thoughts.
• In the perturbation of the moment they despaired of ever more seeing their homes.
• The genuine Tulliwuddle had indeed some cause for perturbation.
• Hugh Chesyl, with a face of grave perturbation, was standing on the platform, searching this way and that.
• Behold the disturbances which, for many a long year, have afflicted the earth, and the perturbation that hath seized its peoples.
• And here he was, seated side by side with Honnor Cunyngham, talking to her, listening to her, and with no sort of perturbation whatever.
• But credit can be claimed by those who took their part in it, for the wreck of express trains, the perturbation of cities, and the mourning of peaceable families.
• There was not the least sign of excitement or perturbation.
• Sunset came amid perturbation, a sense of check, impending disaster.
• The connexion between the velocity of perturbation and the resulting inequality is such that one of the two quantities leads to a knowledge of the numerical value of the other.
• The other was a tall, fine-looking girl, with an air and bearing calculated to rouse admiration if she had not shown so very plainly that she was in a state of inner perturbation.
• And her comings now were preceded by a strange little perturbation.
• He looked for her no doubt, but with no greater visible perturbation than if she had been his handkerchief.
• None had arrived, and Miss Allen, naturally, appeared in great perturbation before the sympathetic but helpless hotel manager.
• Some time elapsed ere they again returned, which they did with lengthened faces, and in extreme perturbation.
• Daisy lay with a great flush upon her face, and in a state of perturbation.
• Wildeve could hardly control his own too forward feelings when he saw her silent perturbation.
• Her hand trembled slightly, and a degree of perturbation was apparent in her movements.
• The indications of perturbation were slight indeed, but from his nature they would be so in any case.
• When the misfortune came, it was still his own perturbation of mind, which had worn and fretted him so that he could not meet it as he might have done.
• Nevertheless, I recognised, I thought, at least one cause for perturbation.
• The young express agent was undergoing the most vivid mental perturbation of his career.
• But upon Madison was still turned those sightless eyes, that noble face, serene, commanding even in its perturbation, even in its alert and searching look.

Similar words containing PERTURBA without suffix tion

perturbant14 perturbate14 perturbable17 perturbably20 perturbance17 perturbants15 perturbated16 perturbates15 perturbator15 perturbances18 perturbating17 perturbative19 perturbators16 perturbatory19 imperturbable21 imperturbably24 perturbations17 imperturbation20 perturbational18 perturbatories18 imperturbations21 imperturbabilit23 imperturbability27 imperturbabilities26

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