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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
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                          United States of America
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                          United Kingdom
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