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disturbance meaning

EN[dɪsˈtɜːbəns]
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  • Disturbance and its variants may refer to:

    Definition of disturbance in English Dictionary

  • NounPLdisturbancesPREdis-SUF-ance
    1. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
      1. Something that disturbs.
        1. That guy causes a lot of trouble, you know, he's such a disturbance.
      2. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
        1. Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
      3. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.
      4. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • This suggests that natural disturbance regimes would have differential facilitory impacts on other mutualistic interactions as well.
          • Only the feeblemindednesses, the confusions and most delirious states are predominantly disturbances of intellect.
          • Lumbar punctures revealed moderate lymphomonocytic pleocytosis (cell counts ranging from 9-13/μl) and mild disturbances of the blood–brain barrier, but a lack of intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis.
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Countable nouns
        Related Links:
        1. en disturbances
        2. en disturbance regime
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of disturbance for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "disturbance" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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