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English to English noun
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a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) |  | Example: the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence
source: wordnet30
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a violent disturbance | | Example: the convulsions of the stock market
source: wordnet30
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(geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | | source: wordnet30
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disturbance usually in protest | | source: wordnet30
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The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust. | | source: webster1913
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