noun
- A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally. )
- usage: "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
- synonyms: turbulence, Sturm und Drang
- A violent disturbance.
- usage: "the convulsions of the stock market"
- synonyms: convulsion, turmoil
- Geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building. ()
- Disturbance usually in protest.
- synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, hullabaloo
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