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DISTORTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Derivation:
distort (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Synonyms:
distortion; overrefinement; straining; torture; twisting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("distortion" is a kind of...):
falsification; misrepresentation (a willful perversion of facts)
Derivation:
distort (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A change for the worse
Synonyms:
deformation; distortion
Classified under:
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)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
Synonyms:
aberration; distortion; optical aberration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
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 (an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image)
Sense 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)
Example:
heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
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)
Derivation:
distort (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A shape resulting from distortion
Synonyms:
distorted shape; distortion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
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)
Derivation:
distort (form into a spiral shape)
distort (twist and press out of shape)
distortionist (a painter who introduces distortions)
Context examples:
Architectural distortion of the tissue structure of a gland.
(Gland Distortion, NCI Thesaurus)
The papillary structures exhibit minimal architectural distortion and minimal atypia.
(Bladder Papillary Urothelial Neoplasm of Low Malignant Potential, NCI Thesaurus)
These changes include structural distortions that interfere with replication and transcription, as well as point mutations that disrupt base pairs and exert damaging effects on future generations through changes in DNA sequence.
(DNA Damage, NCI Thesaurus)
And what a distortion in your judgment, what a perversity in your ideas, is proved by your conduct!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He captured the hand that invited, and felt on the palm familiar markings and distortions.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
An astroblastoma characterized by the presence of high mitotic activity, cytologic atypia, and architectural distortion.
(Anaplastic Astroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Such are the views which, with much passionate distortion of his thin features and wagging of his thin, goat-like beard, he poured into our ears all the way from Southampton to Manaos.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But he says that in "animal studies, it has been shown that microplastics may cause intestinal damage, remodeling of the intestinal villi, distortion of iron absorption and hepatic stress."
(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)
This abnormality results in iris distortion, corneal swelling, pupil distortion, and glaucoma.
(Iridocorneal Endothelial Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
Distortion of normal architecture, hepatocellular plates; compression of adjacent tissue, cellular atypism.
(Hepatocellular Adenoma of the Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
