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Look up: Disturbance


  1. Disturbance
    [ecology] In ecology, a disturbance is a temporary change in average environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Outside disturbance forces often act quickly and with great effect, sometimes resulting in the removal of large amounts of biomass. Ecological distur...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbance_(ecology)

  2. Disturbance
    Any event or series of events that disrupt ecosystem, community, or population structure and alters the physical environment.
    Found op http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/

  3. Disturbance
    A rapid change in an environment that greatly alters a previously persistent biological community
    Found op http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/glossary.def.html

  4. disturbance
    [n] - a disorderly outburst or tumult 2. [n] - an unhappy and worried mental state 3. [n] - the act of disturbing something or someone
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=disturbance

  5. Disturbance
    In community ecology, an event that removes organisms and opens up space which can be colonized by individuals of the same or different species.
    Found op http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Townsend/Glossary/GlossaryD.html

  6. Disturbance
    Dis·turb'ance noun [ Old French destorbance .] 1. An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/99

  7. disturbance
    Deviation from, interruption of, or interference with a normal state. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?disturbance

  8. disturbance
    noun the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=disturbance

  9. disturbance
    disruption noun a disorderly outburst or tumult; `they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=disturbance

  10. disturbance
    ruffle noun a noisy fight
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=disturbance

  11. Disturbance
    • (n.) An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current. • (n.) Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult. • (n.) Confusi...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/disturbance/



  1. disturbance
    disturbance 1. The act of disturbing. 2. The state of being disturbed; a commotion. 3. Something that disturbs. 4. An outbreak of disorder; a breach of public peace. 5. In meteorology: any cyclonic storm or low-pressure area, usually a small one. 6. In geology: a crustal movement of moderate int...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/124/

  2. Disturbance
    (1) Partial or complete alteration of a community or an ecosystem by a biotic or abiotic factor. (2) Cyclonic low pressure system.
    Found op http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeoglos/d.html

  3. Disturbance
    any relatively discrete event in time that disrupts ecosystem, community, or population structure and changes resources, substrate availability, or the physical environment (Turner 1980:181).
    Found op http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/avian/glossary.htm

  4. disturbance
    1. activity that is an intrusion or interruption
    2. an unhappy and worried mental state
    3. a disorderly outburst or tumult
    4. a noisy fight
    5. the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
    6. (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral t...
      Found op

    7. Disturbance
      When applied to Norris Geyser Basin, describes a basin wide or partial basin change in not only geyser and pool behavior but also water temperatures and chemistry. When a disturbance occurs, many dramatic changes can take place. Many previously quiet geysers and pools start erupting. Other pools bec...
      Found op http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/1407/glossary.htm

    8. DISTURBANCE
      This has several applications. It can apply to a low or cyclone that is small in size and influence. It can also apply to an area that is exhibiting signs of cyclonic development. It may also apply to a stage of tropical cyclone development and is known as a tropical disturbance to distinguish it fr...
      Found op http://www.weather.com/glossary/d.html

    9. disturbance
      Type: Term Pronunciation: dis-tŭr′băns Definitions: 1. Deviation from, interruption of, or interference with a normal state.
      Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=26215

    10. Disturbance
      [film] ==Plot== Three children from an ostensibly perfect family attempt to come to terms with the breakup of their parents and the emergence of a Poltergeist that attacks them in their once friendly country farm house. ...
      Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbance_(film)

    11. Disturbance
      [disambiguation] Description Russian Imperial Family Photo Source The Di Rocco Wieler Private Collection, Toronto, Canada Date 1860 Author LEVITSKY Sergei Lvovich (1819-98, Moscow) ...
      Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbance_(disambiguation)

    12. Disturbance
      [geology] A disturbance is a linear zone of disturbed rock strata stretching for many miles across country which comprises a combination of folding and faulting. The British Geological Survey record a number of such features in South Wales including the Neath Disturbance, Pontyclerc Disturba...
      Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbance_(geology)

    13. Disturbance
      A force that causes significant change in structure and/or composition through natural events such as fire, flood, wind, or earthquake, mortality caused by insect or disease outbreaks, or by human-caused events, e.g., the harvest of forest products.
      Found op http://www.streamnet.org/glossary.html

    14. disturbance
      1) Activity 2) Brouhaha 3) Cataclysm 4) Commotion 5) Confusion 6) Disorder 7) Disruption 8) Distraction 9) Free-for-all 10) Furore 11) Fuss 12) Hullabaloo 13) Interference 14) Interruption 15) Ma...
      Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/disturbance/1

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