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Distortion   /dɪstˈɔrʃən/   Listen
Distortion

noun
1.
A change for the worse.  Synonym: deformation.
2.
A shape resulting from distortion.  Synonym: distorted shape.
3.
An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image.  Synonyms: aberration, optical aberration.
4.
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).
5.
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.  Synonyms: overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting.
6.
The mistake of misrepresenting the facts.



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"Distortion" Quotes from Famous Books



... applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light. The God in whom we believe is a God of moral truth, and not a God of mystery or obscurity. Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Truth never envelops itself in mystery; and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped, is the work of its antagonist, and never ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine
... cry. Gilbert was seized with inexpressible agitation, his hair stood on end. He started to fly; but a curiosity stronger than his terror prevented him from leaving the spot and kept him riveted to the door. By the eyebrows and cheekbones, in spite of the distortion of the face, he ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne
... reply was to shake him roughly off, and to vanish through the door towards the lake. George regarded his departing form with a peculiar smile, which was rendered even more peculiar by the distortion of his ...
— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard
... the present in regard to a poet whose reputation is due to no fleeting fancy, but to an instinctive recognition by the public of that which charms now and charms always,—true power and originality, without grimace and distortion; for Apollo, and not Milo, is ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell
... between folk-lore of the so-called Old World and that of America. Transmitted orally through countless generations, the folk-stories of our ancestors show many evidences of distortion and of change in material particulars; but the Indian seems to have been too fond of nature and too proud of tradition to have forgotten or changed the teachings of his forefathers. Childlike in simplicity, beginning with creation itself, and ...
— Indian Why Stories • Frank Bird Linderman


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