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Meanings of distortion in English

Portuguese
aberração óptica
Catalan
aberració òptica
Wikidata

An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image.

aberração óptica
Catalan
deformació
Spanish
deformación

The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.

deformació
Portuguese
deformação
Catalan
deformació
Spanish
distorsión

A change for the worse.

deformação
Catalan
distorsió

A shape resulting from distortion.

distorsió
Usage of distortion in English
1
But we know subsidy leads to distortion, leads to longer term problems.
Reuters
2
The problem wasn't so much the distortion in what you could see.
Cauldron of Ghosts
3
It came in with full audibility, free of distortion, clear and clean.
The Last Ship
4
The exchange canceled some trades as traditional players complained of market distortion.
Reuters
5
More distortion in the headphones please: mastering music for the iPod age.
The Irish Times
6
All artists, from Brueghel to Modigliani, have used distortion to create allure.
The Guardian
7
That means that the time distortion doesn't keep rising on and on.
Analog sff, december 2009
8
They're stealthed, of course, but my smartcore can still detect some distortion.
The evolutionary void
9
I now understood why BB&B had that strange sense of spatial distortion.
Faefever
10
Some small disturbance in nearby space causes a distortion in the cloud.
The Science of Battlestar Galactica
11
Syrinx was aware of a curious secondary oscillation in the distortion field.
The Reality Dysfunction
12
But this is true of the moral distortion of all good qualities.
Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
13
I felt a crushing sense of spatial distortion, stretching me, twisting, compressing.
Faefever
14
Their distortion fields can locate the stealth bombs being flung at us.
The Neutronium Alchemist
15
A hellhawk slid out, deflating its distortion field immediately, and drifting inert.
The Naked God
16
Well-designed dual-driver subwoofer with dual class-D amps offer efficient and distortion-free boom.
Wired
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Translations for distortion
Distortion through the time
Distortion across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common