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...
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2. Disturbance
   Any event or series of events that disrupt ecosystem, community, or population structure and alters the physical environment.
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3. Disturbance
   A rapid change in an environment that greatly alters a previously persistent biological community
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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
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5. disturbance
   an undesired and most frequently unpredictable change in an input variable,other than the reference variable Category: Electrical engineering and energy • Environmental alterations by natural or anthropogenic factors such as fire,avalanches,storms,insect outbreaks,geomorphic processes or logging. Category: Botany and zoology
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6. 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.
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7. 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 ...
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8. disturbance
   Deviation from, interruption of, or interference with a normal state. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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9. disturbance
   noun the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
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10. disturbance
    disruption noun a disorderly outburst or tumult; `they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused`
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11. disturbance
    ruffle noun a noisy fight
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12. 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...
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13. 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...
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14. Disturbance
    (1) Partial or complete alteration of a community or an ecosystem by a biotic or abiotic factor. (2) Cyclonic low pressure system.
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15. 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).
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16. disturbance
    
    • activity that is an intrusion or interruption
    • an unhappy and worried mental state
    • a disorderly outburst or tumult
    • a noisy fight
    • the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
    • (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
    • electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
    
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17. 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...
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18. 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 from other synoptic features.
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19. disturbance
    Type: Term Pronunciation: dis-tŭr′băns Definitions: 1. Deviation from, interruption of, or interference with a normal state.
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20. 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. ...
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21. 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) ...
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22. 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...
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23. 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.
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