Distortion
nounid
41731·updated May 18, 2026verified
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
polysemous
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Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- aberrationdeformationdistorted shapeoverrefinement
- plural
- Distortions
- possessive
- Distortion's
- pluralpossessive
- Distortions'
Framework definitions
- §1
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
- §2
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- §3
- a change for the worse
- §4
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- §5
- a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal
- §6
- a shape resulting from distortion
- §1 · legacy_primary
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good imageDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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