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Perturb meaning

To cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed; to cause confusion. | To disturb (someone, their mind, etc.) mentally; to bother, trouble, upset. | Of a celestial body: to modify the motion or orbit of (another celestial body) by exerting a gravitational force; hence (physics), to slightly modify (the motion of an object).

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New technologies such as Perturb-seq offer unprecedented detail and depth of insight from such genetic disruption studies, but technical and practical hurdles have limited use of Perturb-seq.

And we can perturb them and drive them in different directions.

It did not perturb the imperturbable, though, and India’s number three was in no way jolted out of his chosen tempo.

An approximate way to relate the sound generated to the flow characteristics is to perturb the standard drag equation with velocity perturbations as shown in the upper equation below.

No deceit could trick, no fear perturb, no promises conquer, no difficulties or dangers break him.

Peter Jenniskens has published predictions for the next 50 years. citation However, a close encounter with Jupiter is expected to perturb the comet's path, and many streams, making storms of historic magnitude unlikely for many decades.

The Lin–Kernighan–Johnson methods compute a Lin–Kernighan tour, and then perturb the tour by what has been described as a mutation that removes at least four edges and reconnecting the tour in a different way, then V-opting the new tour.

Therefore, it is an open question as to whether either IGF-1 or insulin in the mammal may perturb aging, although there is the suggestion that dietary restriction phenomena may be related.

This is due to composition-dependent magnetic transformations that perturb the thermal EMFs in type-K thermocouples in the range about 25–225 °C, and in type J above 730 °C.