DISTORTION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
   Hypernyms(s) distortion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • mistake (what does mistake mean?)
   • error (what does error mean?)
   • fault (what does fault mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • falsify (what does falsify mean?)
   • distort (what does distort mean?)
   • garble (what does garble mean?)
   • warp (what does warp mean?)
2. Meaning
   • the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
   Synonym(s)
   • overrefinement (what does overrefinement mean?)
   • straining (what does straining mean?)
   • torture (what does torture mean?)
   • twisting (what does twisting mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) distortion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • falsification (what does falsification mean?)
   • misrepresentaation (what does misrepresentaation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • twist (what does twist mean?)
   • twist around (what does twist around mean?)
   • pervert (what does pervert mean?)
   • convolute (what does convolute mean?)
   • sophisticate (what does sophisticate mean?)
   • overrefine (what does overrefine mean?)
   • over-refine (what does over-refine mean?)
   • falsify (what does falsify mean?)
   • distort (what does distort mean?)
   • garble (what does garble mean?)
   • warp (what does warp mean?)
3. Meaning
   • a change for the worse
   Synonym(s)
   • deformation (what does deformation mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) distortion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • damage (what does damage mean?)
   • harm (what does harm mean?)
   • impairment (what does impairment mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • warp (what does warp mean?)
   • warping (what does warping mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • deform (what does deform mean?)
4. Meaning
   • an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
   Synonym(s)
   • aberration (what does aberration mean?)
   • optical aberration (what does optical aberration mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) distortion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • optical phenomenon (what does optical phenomenon mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • chromatic aberration (what does chromatic aberration mean?)
   • spherical aberration (what does spherical aberration mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • aberrate (what does aberrate mean?)
5. 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)
   Usage Example(s)
   • heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extrem
   Hypernyms(s) distortion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • electrical phenomenon (what does electrical phenomenon mean?)
   • acoustic phenomenon (what does acoustic phenomenon mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • nonlinear distortion (what does nonlinear distortion mean?)
   • amplitude distortion (what does amplitude distortion mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • falsify (what does falsify mean?)
   • distort (what does distort mean?)
   • garble (what does garble mean?)
   • warp (what does warp mean?)
6. Meaning
   • a shape resulting from distortion
   Synonym(s)
   • distorted shape (what does distorted shape mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) distortion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • shape (what does shape mean?)
   • form (what does form mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • tortuosity (what does tortuosity mean?)
   • tortuousness (what does tortuousness mean?)
   • torsion (what does torsion mean?)
   • contortion (what does contortion mean?)
   • crookedness (what does crookedness mean?)
   • warp (what does warp mean?)
   • buckle (what does buckle mean?)
   • knot (what does knot mean?)
   • gnarl (what does gnarl mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • twist (what does twist mean?)
   • twine (what does twine mean?)
   • distort (what does distort mean?)
   • contort (what does contort mean?)
   • deform (what does deform mean?)
   • distort (what does distort mean?)
   • wring (what does wring mean?)