Apprehension vs Perturbation - What's the difference?
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(rare) The physical act of seizing]] or [[take hold, taking hold of; seizure.
* 2006 , Phil Senter, "Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus'' and ''Babiraptor'' (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridea)", ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec.), p. 905:
(legal) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
* 1855 , , North and South , ch. 37:
The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
* 1815 , , "On Life," in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays (1840 edition):
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
* 1901 , , Penelope's English Experiences , ch. 8:
The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
* 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 7:
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.
* 1846 , , Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life , ch. 32:
(uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed
(countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system)
(countable, astronomy, physics) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies
As nouns the difference between apprehension and perturbation
is that apprehension is the physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure while perturbation is agitation; the state of being perturbed.apprehension
English
Noun
(en noun)- The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.
- The warrant had been issued for his apprehension on the charge of rioting.
- We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.
- We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else.
- Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was.
- Every circumstance which evinced the savage nature of the beings at whose mercy I was, augmented the fearful apprehensions that consumed me.