how to pronounce disturbance

/dɪˈstɜː.bəns/

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disturbance is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of disturbance in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… some kind of social disturbance it can …”

meaning of disturbance

Disturbance means a state of disorder or confusion.

disturbance frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word disturbance occurs in english on average 8.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics disturbance can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that disturbance can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;