Distortion
[dɪ'stɔːʃ(ə)n] or [dɪs'tɔrʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the mistake of misrepresenting the facts.
(noun.) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.
(noun.) a change for the worse.
(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'.
Inputed by Cleo--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) A wresting from the true meaning.
(n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion.
(n.) An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.
Edited by Linda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Twist, wryness, contortion, deformity.[2]. Perversion, misrepresentation, falsification.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DETORTION_and_PERVERSION]
Typed by Kate
Examples
- If you have ever seen a collie smile you may have some idea of Woola's facial distortion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- There is a big distortion in the transmitting of ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Archer saw no trace of the slight distortion left by her stroke. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I raised his rigid limbs, I marked the distortion of his face, and the stony eyes lost to perception. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yes, it will, said Celia, with the same touching distortion of her small features. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Doubtless the leaves of the Cumaean Sibyl have suffered distortion and diminution of interest and excellence in my hands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Judging from analogy, the tendency to distortion would no doubt be increased through the principle of inheritance. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And what a distortion in your judgment, what a perversity in your ideas, is proved by your conduct! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This last story and many such stories may be lies or distortions or exaggerations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Nelda