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  1. perturbationsnoun

    Plural form of perturbation.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Perturbations

    name given to irregularities or slight deviations in the movement of a heavenly body, due chiefly to the neighbourhood of another point in its orbit.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. perturbations

    The effects of the attractions of the heavenly bodies upon each other, whereby they are sometimes drawn out of their elliptic paths about the central body, as instanced by the wondrous discovery of Neptune.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of perturbations in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of perturbations in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of perturbations in a Sentence

  1. Dejan Stojkovic:

    When we reach the precision needed in our observations, we may be able to say that a wormhole is the most likely explanation if we detect perturbations in the orbit of S2, but we cannot say that, Yes, this is definitely a wormhole.

  2. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

    The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

  3. Zhang Hanwen:

    The aim of the game in this boom period of proboscidean evolution was' adapt or die,' habitat perturbations were relentless, pertained to the ever-changing global climate, continuously promoting new adaptive solutions while proboscideans that didn't keep up were literally, left for dead. The once greatly diverse and widespread mastodonts were eventually reduced to less than a handful of species in the Americas, including the familiar Ice Age American mastodon.

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