单词 | perturbable |
释义 | perturbableadj. rare before 20th cent. Capable of being, or liable to be, perturbed (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > [adjective] > of ranks: liable to be disordered perturbable1800 1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 8 599 The characteristic feature of the Russian constitution is the substitution of military rank, perturbable at the will of the prince, to hereditary or professional distinction. 1906 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 2nd v. viii. 244 Ephemeral at the best all honours be,..So random-fashioned, swift, perturbable! 1987 Punch 26 Aug. 54/4 After a while you begin to notice Gross's respect for the world about which he's writing, although his imagination is perturbable. 1999 Rev. Econ. Stud. 66 708 There is a perturbable entry in each row of A2. Derivatives perˌturbaˈbility n. the quality of being perturbable. ΚΠ 1877 H. James American xii. 204 M. de Bellegarde's face flushed a little, but he held his head higher, as if to repudiate this concession to vulgar perturbability. 1971 Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 70 A natural question therefore arises whether a similar situation occurs in the case of perturbability of manifolds. 1996 Jrnl. Abnormal Child Psychol. (Nexis) 24 803 It would be enlightening to determine the perturbability of other self-report depression scales. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1800 |
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