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Meaning of "perturb" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERTURB

From Old French pertourber, from Latin perturbāre to confuse, from per- (intensive) + turbāre to agitate, from turba confusion.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PERTURB

perturb  [pəˈtɜːb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERTURB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Perturb is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb perturb in English.

WHAT DOES PERTURB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Perturbation

Perturbation or perturb may refer to: ▪ Perturbation theory, mathematical methods that give approximate solutions to problems that cannot be solved exactly ▪ Perturbation, changes in the nature of alluvial deposits over time ▪ Perturbation, alterations to an object's orbit—e.g., caused by gravitational interactions with other bodies ▪ Perturbation theory, a set of approximation schemes directly related to mathematical perturbation for describing a complicated quantum system in terms of a simpler one ▪ Perturbation, an alteration of the function of a biological system, induced by external or internal mechanisms ▪ Perturbation, operation of a transport system outside of timetable such that delays in arrival and departure from defined locations are present. ▪ Perturbation function, mathematical function which relates the primal and dual problems.

Definition of perturb in the English dictionary

The first definition of perturb in the dictionary is to disturb the composure of; trouble. Other definition of perturb is to throw into disorder. Perturb is also to cause to undergo a perturbation.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PERTURB

PRESENT

Present
I perturb
you perturb
he/she/it perturbs
we perturb
you perturb
they perturb
Present continuous
I am perturbing
you are perturbing
he/she/it is perturbing
we are perturbing
you are perturbing
they are perturbing
Present perfect
I have perturbed
you have perturbed
he/she/it has perturbed
we have perturbed
you have perturbed
they have perturbed
Present perfect continuous
I have been perturbing
you have been perturbing
he/she/it has been perturbing
we have been perturbing
you have been perturbing
they have been perturbing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I perturbed
you perturbed
he/she/it perturbed
we perturbed
you perturbed
they perturbed
Past continuous
I was perturbing
you were perturbing
he/she/it was perturbing
we were perturbing
you were perturbing
they were perturbing
Past perfect
I had perturbed
you had perturbed
he/she/it had perturbed
we had perturbed
you had perturbed
they had perturbed
Past perfect continuous
I had been perturbing
you had been perturbing
he/she/it had been perturbing
we had been perturbing
you had been perturbing
they had been perturbing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will perturb
you will perturb
he/she/it will perturb
we will perturb
you will perturb
they will perturb
Future continuous
I will be perturbing
you will be perturbing
he/she/it will be perturbing
we will be perturbing
you will be perturbing
they will be perturbing
Future perfect
I will have perturbed
you will have perturbed
he/she/it will have perturbed
we will have perturbed
you will have perturbed
they will have perturbed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been perturbing
you will have been perturbing
he/she/it will have been perturbing
we will have been perturbing
you will have been perturbing
they will have been perturbing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would perturb
you would perturb
he/she/it would perturb
we would perturb
you would perturb
they would perturb
Conditional continuous
I would be perturbing
you would be perturbing
he/she/it would be perturbing
we would be perturbing
you would be perturbing
they would be perturbing
Conditional perfect
I would have perturb
you would have perturb
he/she/it would have perturb
we would have perturb
you would have perturb
they would have perturb
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been perturbing
you would have been perturbing
he/she/it would have been perturbing
we would have been perturbing
you would have been perturbing
they would have been perturbing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you perturb
we let´s perturb
you perturb
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to perturb
Past participle
perturbed
Present Participle
perturbing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERTURB


acerb
əˈsɜːb
adverb
ˈædˌvɜːb
blurb
blɜːb
burb
bɜːb
curb
kɜːb
disturb
dɪˈstɜːb
exurb
ˈɛksɜːb
herb
hɜːb
kerb
kɜːb
Loeb
lɜːb
potherb
ˈpɒtˌhɜːb
proverb
ˈprɒvɜːb
refurb
ˈriːˌfɜːb
reverb
ˈriːvɜːb
Serb
sɜːb
suburb
ˈsʌbɜːb
superb
sʊˈpɜːb
urb
ɜːb
verb
vɜːb
willowherb
ˈwɪləʊˌhɜːb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERTURB

pertness
perturbable
perturbably
perturbance
perturbant
perturbate
perturbation
perturbational
perturbative
perturbator
perturbatory
perturbed
perturbedly
perturber
perturbing
perturbingly
pertusate
pertuse
pertused
pertusion

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERTURB

absorb
adsorb
auxiliary verb
barb
bedroom suburb
bicarb
boomburb
carb
courb
dorb
forb
garb
garden suburb
high-carb
orb
phrasal verb
rhubarb
slurb
sorb
wellcurb

Synonyms and antonyms of perturb in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PERTURB»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «perturb» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of perturb

Translation of «perturb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERTURB

Find out the translation of perturb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of perturb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «perturb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

扰乱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

perturbar
570 millions of speakers

English

perturb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उपद्रव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التشويش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

возмущают
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

perturbar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিহ্বল করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

perturber
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perturb
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

stören
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

混乱させる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

교란
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngguyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gây sự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குலைத்துவிடும்போது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उत्तेजन देणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kafasını karıştırmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

perturbare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

perturb
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обурюють
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tulbura
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διαταράσσουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beroering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

störa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forurolige
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of perturb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERTURB»

The term «perturb» is regularly used and occupies the 85.331 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERTURB» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «perturb» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «perturb» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about perturb

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERTURB»

Discover the use of perturb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to perturb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Earth Science and the Environment
4. Twelve generic types of interactions are possible among the four spheres. These are: (a) Changes in the solid Earth perturb the hydrosphere. (b) Changes in the hydrosphere perturb the solid Earth. (c) Changes in the solid Earth perturb  ...
Graham Thompson, Jon Turk, 2006
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Electrical, Information Engineering and Mechatronics 2011: ...
To take full advantage of the PV cells power output, when the CV method achieves control objectives, the adaptive duty cycle perturb method will take over around the maximum power point. Compared with the traditional duty cycle perturb ...
Shaobo Zhong, Fuzhong Wang, 2012
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
Obsolete forms of partizan2. perturb (p6r-terb' ),v.t. [< ME. perturben, per- tourben, < OF. perturber, pertourber = Sp. Pg. perturbar= It. perturbare,<.~L. perturbare, throw into confusion, confuse, disorder, disturb, < per, through, □+□ turbare, ...
‎1911
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The Century dictionary: an encyclopedic lexicon of the ...
< L. per- turban(t~)s, ppr. ot perturbare, perturb : seeper- turb.] I. jx. Disturbing; perturbing. U. ». A disturbing circumstance or thing; whatever perturbs or disturbs the natural course or order. [Bare.] The matter [migration of birds] thus becomes a  ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
< L. pcr- turban(t-)s,-rjTpr.oi perturbare, perturb: see^er- turb.] I. a. Disturbing; perturbing. II. re. A disturbing circumstance or thing; whatever perturbs or disturbs the natural course or order. [Bare.] The matter [migration of birds] thus hecomeB a  ...
‎1906
6
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
Obsolete forms of partisan'1. perturb (per-terb'), v. t. [< ME. perturben, per- perturbator (per'ter-ba-tor), « tourben, < OP. pertwber, pertourber = Sp. Pg. '• ' ' □ ' □ perturbare It.perturbare.i L. perlurbare, throw into confusion, confuse, disorder,  ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
( )erturbable + -ity (see -bih'ty).] The state or c aractor of being perturbable. perturbable (per-tér'ba-bl), a. [= S . perturbable, < ML. 'perturbabilv's, < L. pertur are, perturb: seepertuer Capable of being perturbed, agitated. or disquiete . perturbaan ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1904
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Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology: 5th ...
Force is applied to every occurrence of extreme homozygotes in Shades scheme. 3.2 The Perturb Operator Perturb operates in a similar manner to the inversion operator, but at a much more limited scale of disruption. Perturb swaps a pair that  ...
Geuk Lee, Daniel Howard, Dominik Ślęzak, 2011
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GWM--a ground-water management process for the U.S. ...
Stream Depletion Stream Depletion S04.4 Stream Depletion S04.7 Stream Depletion S04.8 Stream Depletion S04.11 Stream Depletion S04.12 Calculating Response Matrix Perturb Flow Variable 1 By Perturbation Value: -2.500750E+03  ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
[Formerly also perturb (per-t6rb' ), v. t . ME. perturben, per- tourben, < OF. perturber, pertourber = Sp. Pg. perturbar = It. perturbare, < L. perturbare, throw into confusion, confuse, disorder, disturb, < per, through, + turbare, confuse, disturb: see ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERTURB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term perturb is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Concept of cultural nationalism is absurd'
The concept of Hindutva is being used as a device to perturb the integrity of the nation, he said and added that dharma, yoga and music were ... «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»
2
Iranian activist Nargress Mohammadi decries plight of mothers in …
How many times did they perturb your little innocent hearts and make you shed tears of separation from your parents? Perhaps in another land, ... «Payvand, Jul 15»
3
Uber's Own Numbers Show It's Making Traffic Worse
The Uber vehicles perturb that system,” Komanoff wrote. Uber “isn't totally wrong” to claim that it is not responsible for Manhattan congestion, ... «Streetsblog New York, Jul 15»
4
Microtubules see the light
... dynamics inside living cells, to pause and reorient embryonic development in Caenorhabditis elegans, and to perturb the cytoskeleton in live ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
5
A Most Singular Nano-Imaging Technique
“Since the graphene surface of the GLC is inert, it does not adsorb or otherwise perturb the natural state of our nanoparticles.” Berkeley Lab ... «Lab Manager Magazine, Jul 15»
6
The Return of Diplomacy - What Consequences for Transitional …
... demanding instant and immediate remedies to painfully burning problems which rightfully perturb them. The 'revived diplomats' are viscerally ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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San Jose's Alum Rock Park closed due to marijuana raid
But the legal ramifications of hosting a potentially illegal event didn't perturb event organizer Morgan Kelly. The event took place Saturday, ... «San Francisco Sun Times, Jul 15»
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MSV Was an Ocean of Melody
But this did not perturb MSV. He reinvented himself. He came up with the monster hit Ninaithale Inikkum. When Kamal Haasan sang Engeyum ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
9
Police Stations Now Offer 'Online Safe Zones' For Online Traders
Online safe zones are not new, but their popularity has only exploded within the last several months as a growing number of incidents perturb ... «Tech Times, Jul 15»
10
Subtle Distractions Divert Our Focus More Than Obvious Ones: Study
... volume while working does nothing to perturb your actions? Well, researchers at Brown University have found that subtle distractors are often ... «Medical Daily, Jul 15»

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