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perturbation

noun as in distress

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These perturbations make the stars’ orbits around the galactic center more and more elliptical.

As the core wobbles, it creates gravitational perturbations that affect the surrounding rings, creating subtle “waves” that can be measured.

Called LowKey, the tool expands on Fawkes by applying perturbations to images based on a stronger kind of adversarial attack, which also fools pretrained commercial models.

Confronted with any perturbations, the model should be able to correct itself as well.

The fish used its swordlike snouts to sense electrical perturbations made by smaller prey.

He turned his thesis into the book Geometric Perturbation Theory in Physics on the new developments in differential geometry.

Say your portfolio is worth a third less than before this recession or crash or perturbation or whatever you want to call it.

At times there are periodic attacks of mental perturbation that may become true insanity.

She picked up her parasol, and resumed her journey in some perturbation of mind, reflecting on the utter rudeness of the deer.

I had an idea that she would shrink from me or show some perturbation; but I was never more mistaken in my life.

Agatha went up to her mistress in a state of great perturbation, and the cook also hurried away to her bedroom.

The frown of bewilderment was deeper now––the perturbation turned anxious.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to perturbation, such as: anxiety, commotion, confusion, disorder, disruption, and disturbance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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