The economy will overcome "temporary disturbances," President Bush promised the business community in a speech.

Concussion: A brain injury that causes a temporary disturbance in brain function.

However, they see conflict as being the result of temporary disturbances in the social system.

Laser pointers if aimed at a person's eyes can cause temporary disturbances to vision.

A geomagnetic storm is a temporary intense disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere.

These early symptoms, called auras, include temporary disturbances in one or more functions:

If the water is thick and muddy, it indicates loss and temporary disturbance.

"In the short run it has problems with offshore habitat destruction and temporary short-term disturbance to the intertidal zone," she said.

If that proves true, then today's high oil prices will probably be seen as nothing more than a temporary disturbance.

"A temporary disturbance in the cosmic order."