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Words related to distortion

Related / Similar Words: overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting, deformation, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape

Definition:

the mistake of misrepresenting the facts;

the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean;

a change for the worse;

an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image;

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); "heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extrem;

a shape resulting from distortion;

Hyponyms: warp, warping, chromatic aberration, spherical aberration, nonlinear distortion, amplitude distortion, tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness, buckle, knot, gnarl

Derivational Morphology: falsify, distort, garble, warp, twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate, overrefine, over-refine, deform, aberrate, twine, contort, wring

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