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distortion

/dɪ'stɔrʃən/

noun
a change for the worse
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deformation

type of:
damage impairment harm
noun
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
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overrefinement straining torture twisting

type of:
misrepresentation falsification
noun
a shape resulting from distortion
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distorted shape

type of:
shape form
noun
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
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aberration optical aberration

type of:
optical phenomenon
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)
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"heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion"

type of:
electrical phenomenon acoustic phenomenon
noun
the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
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mistake fault error

Examples of distortion

"heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion"

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