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What does perturb mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word perturb? Here's what it means.

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  1. To disturb; to bother or unsettle.
  2. (physics) To slightly modify the motion of an object.
  3. (astronomy) To modify the motion of a body by exerting a gravitational force.
  4. (mathematics) To modify slightly, such as an equation or value.
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If we perturb a system that has a rational frequency ratio, then it can easily be shifted into a chaotic situation with irrational frequencies.
Did you know that pressure from sunlight alone is sufficient to perturb the orbit of a satellite travelling in the solar system?
By their calculations, it wouldn't take much to perturb our own system, either.
It could change the heating structure of the atmosphere and perturb the climate system in ways we don't understand now.
This does not occur in practice, since random forces such as Brownian motion perturb the cell's trajectory.
Many suggest that global warming will perturb the climate system so much as to even initiate an Ice Age.

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