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perturb 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/pərˈtərb/,
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perturbs, 3rd person singular present; perturbed, past participle; perturbing, present participle; perturbed, past tense;
  1. Make (someone) anxious or unsettled
    • - they were perturbed by her capricious behavior
    • - they were perturbed that the bank had begun switching some of its problem loans
  2. Subject (a system, moving object, or process) to an influence tending to alter its normal or regular state or path
    • - nuclear weapons could be used to perturb the orbit of an asteroid
  1. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
  2. disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"
  3. cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
  4. throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"
  5. (perturbed) flustered: thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
  6. (perturbing) distressing: causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome ...
  7. To disturb; to bother or unsettle; To slightly modify the motion of an object; To modify the motion of a body by exerting a gravitational force; To modify slightly, such as an equation or value
  8. (perturbed) Disturbed; flustered
  9. (perturbed) made uneasy or troubled
  10. to confuse, disorder, disturb; In the context of data reporting, perturbing is to hide (usually with an asterisk "*") aggregated data that contain such small numbers as to reveal individual achievement. In most cases, this is done to be in compliance with FERPA.