Distortion
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
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Senses
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the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
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the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
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a change for the worse
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a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal
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a shape resulting from distortion
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- aberrationdeformationdistorted shapeoverrefinement
- plural
- Distortions
- possessive
- Distortion's
- pluralpossessive
- Distortions'