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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



... him: the reading of the narrative had left its mark on them already. A distortion at the corners of his mouth, which had been barely noticeable when Mr. Neal entered the room, was plainly visible now. His slow articulation labored more and more painfully with every word he uttered. The position was emphatically a terrible one. After a moment ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... curious to observe how much of the dignity even of his later pictures, depends on such portions as the green light of the lake, and sky behind the rocks, in the St. John of the tribune, and how the repainted distortion of the Madonna dell' Impannata, is redeemed into something like elevated character, merely by the light of the linen window from which it takes ...
— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin
... optics the distinction is easily seen when the work is put to trial; but here too, as in drawing, it requires an educated eye to tell the difference when the work is only moderately bad; but with "bold" work, nothing can be seen but distortion and fog: and I heartily wish the same result would follow the same kind of handling in drawing; but here, the boldness cheats the unlearned by looking like the precision of the true man. It is very strange how ...
— The Two Paths • John Ruskin
... maintained that immovable pose more successfully. I mean as to body and limbs; with the face there was a difference. By fleeting revealments of the face I saw that something was happening—something out of the common. There would be a sudden twitch of the muscles of the face, an instant distortion, which in the next instant had passed and left no trace. These twitches gradually grew in frequency, but no muscle outside of the face lost any of its rigidity, or betrayed any interest in what was happening to Jim. I mean if ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain
... wished to do so, seems to imply ignorance of the amazingly dexterous realism of the notoriously bad works of that age. Very often, I fear, the misrepresentation of the primitives must be attributed to what the critics call, "wilful distortion." Be that as it may, the point is that, either from want of skill or want of will, primitives neither create illusions, nor make display of extravagant accomplishment, but concentrate their energies on the one thing needful—the creation of form. Thus have they created the finest works ...
— Art • Clive Bell


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