1) Amplified instrument 2) Anamorphosis 3) Contortion 4) Crookedness 5) Damage 6) Deformation 7) Deformity 8) Detortion 9) Grimace 10) Harelip 11) Harm 12) Impairment 13) Insult 14) Malconformation 15) Malformation 16) Misproportion 17) Misrepresentation 18) Monstrosity 19) Talipes 20) Teratology 21) Travesty
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1) Crookedness 2) Deformation 3) Deformity 4) Fabrication 5) Fib 6) Gnarl 7) Lie 8) Malformation 9) Misrepresentation 10) Obliquity 11) Overrefinement 12) Parody 13) Torsion 14) Tortuosity 15) Tortuousness 16) Ugliness 17) Warp 18) Warpage 19) Warping
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- a change for the worse
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
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• (n.) A wresting from the true meaning. • (n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion. • (n.) An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity. • (n.) The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape;...
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(L. dis- apart + torsio a twisting) the state of being twisted out of a natural or normal shape or position.
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Any departure from the ideal of perfect competition that therefore interferes with economic agents maximizing social welfare when they maximize their own. Includes taxes and subsidies, tariffs and NTBs, externalities, incomplete information, and imperfect competition.
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An effect that is applied to the amplification signal of an instrument, usually and most notably guitars.
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(from the article `aberration`) Curvature of field and distortion refer to the location of image points with respect to one another. Even though the former three aberrations may be ... ...an image in which the centre of the field of view is in focus when the periphery may not be and is a consequence of using lenses with spherical ... ...
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A type of optical aberration that happens when there is a variation in magnification across the visual field. Barrel distortion results when a lens magnifies slightly more at its thickest part (along the optical axis) than it does at its edges; the image of a square shape would thus appear to have b...
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(Digital cameras and photo printers) Misrepresentation of an image. Wide angle lenses normally produce more distortion than tele lenses.
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Alteration of viewed images caused by variations in glass flatness or in homogeneous portions within the glass. An inherent characteristic of heat-treated glass.
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(dis-tor´shәn) the state of being twisted out of a natural or normal shape or position. in psychology, the process of altering or disguising unconscious ideas or impulses so that they become acceptable to the conscious mind. in optics or radiology, deviation of an image from the true ou...
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A phenomenon in which straight lines are not rendered perfectly straight in a picture. There are two types of distortion--barrel distortion and pincushion distortion. Distortion cannot be improved by stopping down the lens
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Alteration of viewed images caused by variations in glass flatness or inhomogeneous portions within the glass. An inherent characteristic of heat-treated glass.
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A drying defect caused by the differential shrinkage along the three axes of a piece of wood. Distortion may take the form of cup, bow, twist, spring or diamonding
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Dis·tor'tion noun [ Latin
distortio : confer French
distortion .]
1. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the
distortions of the face or body.
2. A wresting from the true meaning.
Bp. Wren. ...
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A modification of the original signal appearing in the output of audio equipment which had not been present in the input. (Audio)
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Any change made by an artist in the size, position, or general character of forms based on visual perception, when those forms are organized into a pictorial image. Any personal or subjective interpretation of natural forms must necessarily involve a degree of distortion.
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A phenomenon in which straight lines are not rendered perfectly straight in a picture. There are two types of distortion--barrel distortion and pincushion distortion. Distortion cannot be improved by stopping down the lens. Even if the other possible aberrations were totally eliminated, images could result that still have a distorted appearance. Fo...
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a process, often found desirable by guitar players, that alters a sound's waveform.
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Any change in the waveform or harmonic content of an original signal as it passes through a device. The result of nonlinearity within the device.
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overrefinement noun the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
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A change in a electronic signal that occurs when different frequen-cy components of the signal decay at different rates. In a signalmade up of many frequency components (such as a squarewave), the higher frequency components of a signal typicallydecay faster than the lower frequency components.
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an act or instance of distorting. · the state of being distorted or the relative degree or amount by which something is distorted or distorts. · anything that is distorted, as a sound, image, fact, etc. · an aberration of a lens or system of lenses in which the magnification of the object varies with the lateral distance from the ...
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a shape resulting from being deformed
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