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Noun distortion has 6 senses
- distortion, deformation - a change for the worse
--1 is a kind of damage, harm, impairment
--1 has particulars: warp, warping
- distorted shape, distortion - a shape resulting from distortion
--2 is a kind of shape, form
--2 has particulars:
- aberration, distortion, optical aberration - an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
--3 is a kind of optical phenomenon
--3 has particulars: chromatic aberration; spherical aberration
- distortion - 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"
--4 is a kind of electrical phenomenon; acoustic phenomenon
--4 has particulars: nonlinear distortion, amplitude distortion
- distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting - the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
--5 is a kind of falsification, misrepresentaation
- distortion - the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
--6 is a kind of mistake, error, fault
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