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Definition of Distortion

1. Noun. A change for the worse.

2. Noun. A shape resulting from distortion.

3. Noun. An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image.

4. Noun. A change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal). "Heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion"

5. Noun. The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.

6. Noun. The mistake of misrepresenting the facts.

Definition of Distortion

1. n. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.

Definition of Distortion

1. Noun. An act of distorting. ¹

2. Noun. A result of distorting. ¹

3. Noun. A misrepresentation of the truth. ¹

4. Noun. Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music. ¹

5. Noun. An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal. ¹

6. Noun. (optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Distortion

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Distortion

1. The state of being twisted out of a natural or normal shape or position. Origin: L. Dis = apart, torsio = a twisting This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Distortion

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Literary usage of Distortion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1842)
"cing premature labour waa nut less striking, although the degree of distortion waa so great that a child of seven mouths could not be born alive. 1. ..."

2. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1890)
"Elongation of a wire or rod by direct pull, is (§ 23 below) an instance of a compound distortion co-existing with a rarefaction of the substance, ..."

3. Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1916)
"SECTION VI GENERAL WAVES CHAPTER XXV Distortion OF WAVE-SHAPE AND ITS CAUSES 232. In the preceding chapters we have considered the alternating currents and ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1867)
"AT the Newport meeting of this Association I presented many facts relating to the distortion of pebbles in the conglomerate near that city, tinder the title ..."

5. The Observatory (1902)
"Yours very faithfully, The Distortion of Object-Glasses. In your issue of June last appears an article by your correspondent " From an Oxford Note - Book ..."

6. The Theory of Optical Instruments by Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1907)
"The condition for absence of distortion. Having now secured flatness of field ... When this is not the case, the image is said to be affected by distortion. ..."

7. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1867)
"AT the Newport meeting of this Association I presented many facts relating to the distortion of pebbles in the conglomerate near that city, under the title, ..."

8. The Methods of Petrographic-microscopic Research, Their Relative Accuracy by Frederic Eugene Wright (1911)
"23. distortion is no longer rectilinear but curved and cushion-shaped or ... In microscope objectives the construction is such that distortion is not ..."

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