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Definition of Distortable
1. Adjective. Capable of having the meaning altered or twisted. "Our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distortable
Literary usage of Distortable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Self-propelled Vehicles: A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction by James Edward Homans (1904)
"Herein, we see a fundamental constructional principle for a flexible motor carriage
frame; that the flexible and distortable portion should involve only ..."
2. The Alternate Current Transformer in Theory and Practice by John Ambrose Fleming (1890)
"... we may picture this ether to ourselves as a distortable but incompressible
jelly-like solid, which exists everywhere and penetrates into the interior of ..."
3. A Text-book of obstetrics by Barton Cooke Hirst (1902)
"Children have been born with the rachide processes in their most active stage,—that
is, while the bones are still soft and easily distortable,—or at birth ..."
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