What is disturbance?
What is disturbance?
- The act of disturbing: a disturbance of lake sediments. The condition of being disturbed:"The forest .. is in various stages of disturbance. Only the biggest trees .. have been left standing"(Alex Shoumatoff).
- Something that disturbs, as a commotion, scuffle, or public tumult.
- Mental or emotional unbalance or disorder.
- A variation in normal wind conditions.
- Geology Folding or faulting that affects a relatively large area.
- Physics An alteration or displacement of a region of a medium from its equilibrium state.