English noun: distortion |
1. | distortion (event) a change for the worse |
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| Synonyms | deformation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | damage, harm, impairment |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | warp, warping |
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2. | distortion (shape) a shape resulting from distortion |
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| Synonyms | distorted shape |
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| Broader (hypernym) | form, shape |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | buckle, contortion, crookedness, gnarl, knot, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness, warp |
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3. | distortion (phenomenon) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image |
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| Synonyms | aberration, optical aberration |
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| Broader (hypernym) | optical phenomenon |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | chromatic aberration, spherical aberration |
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4. | distortion (phenomenon) 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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| Samples | Heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion.
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| Broader (hypernym) | acoustic phenomenon, electrical phenomenon |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | amplitude distortion, nonlinear distortion |
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5. | distortion (act) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean |
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| Synonyms | overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting |
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| Broader (hypernym) | falsification, misrepresentation |
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6. | distortion (act) the mistake of misrepresenting the facts |
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| Broader (hypernym) | error, fault, mistake |
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