Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

turbation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tur-ba-tion
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The mixing of soil or sediment, especially pedoturbation.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"With the onset of the rainy season, swelling closes the cracks, more rapidly in the upper horizons than further down. Trapped material eventually expands inside the soil body causing distortion, convulsion, and churning of the mass (turbation)."

Etymology

From Latin turbātiō, turbātiōnem (“disturbance; confusion”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: turbatio

Usage

Inflected Forms

turbations (plural)

Derived Forms

aeroturbation anthroturbation aquaturbation argilliturbation biopedturbation cryopedoturbation cryoturbation crystalturbation faunalturbation floralturbation graviturbation pedoturbation

Frequently Paired Words

disturb disturbance disturbingly perturb perturbation perturbative perturbed perturbedly

Questions

What does turbation mean?: The mixing of soil or sediment, especially pedoturbation.
Where does turbation come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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