Dictionary entry details
• DISTORTION (noun)
Meaning:
A change for the worse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
distortion; deformation
Hypernyms ("distortion" is a kind of...):
damage; harm; impairment (the occurrence of a change for the worse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distortion"):
warp; warping (a moral or mental distortion)
Meaning:
A shape resulting from distortion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
distorted shape; distortion
Hypernyms ("distortion" is a kind of...):
form; shape (the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distortion"):
contortion; crookedness; torsion; tortuosity; tortuousness (a tortuous and twisted shape or position)
buckle; warp (a shape distorted by twisting or folding)
gnarl; knot (something twisted and tight and swollen)
Meaning:
An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
optical aberration; aberration; distortion
Hypernyms ("distortion" is a kind of...):
optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distortion"):
chromatic aberration (an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes)
spherical aberration (a optical aberration resulting in a distorted image)
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Context example:
heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion
Hypernyms ("distortion" is a kind of...):
acoustic phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the production or transmission of sound)
electrical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon involving electricity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distortion"):
amplitude distortion; nonlinear distortion (distortion that occurs when the output signal does not have a linear relation to the input signal)
Meaning:
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
overrefinement; twisting; straining; torture; distortion
Hypernyms ("distortion" is a kind of...):
falsification; misrepresentaation (a willful perversion of facts)
Meaning:
The mistake of misrepresenting the facts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("distortion" is a kind of...):
error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)
