Perturb

nuclear weapons could be used to perturb the orbit of an asteroid

By their calculations, it wouldn’t take much to perturb our own system, either.

In this case, inverting one element at a time might perturb its function whereas inverting them both at once might be less detrimental.

If we perturb a system that has a rational frequency ratio, then it can easily be shifted into a chaotic situation with irrational frequencies.

It could change the heating structure of the atmosphere and perturb the climate system in ways we don’t understand now.

But how do mass extinctions perturb these systems in the first place?

The failure of a laboratory’s computer system has the potential to disrupt work flow, compromise business interests, and delay or perturb patient care.

External factors that could perturb development include temperature and environmental chemicals.

The future of experiments to test the behavioral role of neurons in vertebrates lies in using reverse genetic tools to perturb function.

Did you know that pressure from sunlight alone is sufficient to perturb the orbit of a satellite travelling in the solar system?

In this way, we see that the two systems engage in an exchange, a feedback loop of information and effect, which serves to further change or perturb each system.

The challenge is to perturb the system in a cell specific way to examine the behavioral consequences.

Many suggest that global warming will perturb the climate system so much as to even initiate an Ice Age.

Drugs perturb the system through increasing or decreasing transmission or transmitter levels, or up or down regulating receptor populations.

What perturbs me though is the complete lack of value I have received from my taxes, that I have faithfully paid towards public health over the years.

There are, probably, two principal concerns that will be perturbing the potential visitor.

He is also perturbed by the fact that no meaningful debate is being made on this illogical act of film censorship.

He’s also perturbed by the way his daughters’ peers dress.

She was perturbed by my independent streak, my take it or leave it attitude and my utter inability to find suitable companionship.

We are perturbed by the current strike by council workers and feel the best way out of the problem would be to return to work.

A general concern with AFM imaging of living cells is that the imaging process in some way perturbsthe cells.

In the perturbative expansion of a gauge theory, large numbers of Feynman amplitudes combine to produce mathematically simple expressions.

It also suggests magnetic fields as a useful tool for perturbing and investigating cellular processes that involve large biomolecular assemblies.

It will stay there if your hand is perfectly stable and nothing perturbs the equilibrium.

However, neither Clive or Christine were perturbed by this.

Much of the audience is perturbed by the portrayal here, but the setting quickly changes to the next day at school.

Fifteen years later when I revisited the issue, I was still perturbed .

Some conservative voters are perturbed that the couple, married in 1998, appear to lead separate lives.

String theory is meant to be some approximate perturbative expansion of some theory not yet known