🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

Perturbación

Pronunciation / Transliteration: peɾtuɾβaˈθjon

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Perturbation/ˌpɜːr.tɜːrˈbeɪ.ʃən/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La perturbación afectó el equilibrio del sistema."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of causing a disturbance or disruption in a system or process.

    "The perturbation in the gravitational field caused the satellite to change its orbit."
  2. 2

    A small change in a physical system, often used in mathematics and physics.

    "The scientist studied the perturbation of the wave function in quantum mechanics."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'perturbation' originates from the Latin 'perturbatio', which means 'disturbance'. It evolved through Middle French before entering English in the late 14th century, retaining its meaning related to disturbance or disruption.

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