WordNet: perturb
cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
- hypernym deviate
- verb group perturb
perturb
- (englanti) perturbation (derivationally related)
- (suomi) aiheuttaa häiriö (synonyymi)