Distortion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISTORTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a lack of proportionality in an image resulting from defects in the optical system
• the action of distorting or the state of being distorted
• a distorted form or part
• the action of giving a misleading account or impression
• change in the form of an electrical signal or sound wave during processing.
• 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.
• A wresting from the true meaning.
• The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion.
• An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.
• a change for the worse
• a shape resulting from distortion
• 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)
• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
• the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of distorting

Words related to DISTORTION

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Words that contain DISTORTION

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How to use DISTORTION in a sentence

• All sign of contraction or distortion had passed away.
• In another sense it may be argued that war destroys capital in that it prevents its being accumulated, but this is a distortion of the meaning of the word destroy.
• There was a shadow outline beneath the surface of the metallic water now, but he could not see well because of the distortion of the murky waves.
• I might, in the same manner, proceed to show that the feelings, uncontrolled by a superior influence, would be also likely to give distortion or exaggeration to the doctrines.
• In selecting maps it is well to be able to recognise the amount of distortion and scale-variation.
• I covered up the face quickly with a handkerchief to hide any convulsive distortion.
• But this hypothesis leads to the most violent distortion of the original declarations, and the suppression or concealment of their most obvious features.
• The vertical distortion of the curve must not be so great that there is a very sensible difference between the length of the arc and its chord.
• After a time this caused a distortion of the lips, which I concealed somewhat by a moustache.
• There was froth upon his lips, with such a general distortion of features that it would be impossible to figure a more horrible illustration of madness than his countenance.
• The distortion is not without a suggestion of ignominy.
• I should remark that when the land was subject to this distortion, it was always during the forenoon, and on those days the winds were invariably light.
• From a distortion of this fact has come the blasphemous idea of eternal damnation.
• And let your smile be no formal distortion of your lips, but a bright ray from the sunshine in your heart.
• What I say is that current ambitions usually result in disappointment, that they usually mean the complete distortion of a life.
• The dream of his sister was a major literal distortion of the reality it was based upon, but that was not the case with this one that he had just awakened from.
• The monstrous distortion of the patriotic sentiment, which is increasing, is killing off humanity.
• In order that the loading The whole of this paragraph or unloading of the vehicles is a transparent distortion which transport the wounded of fact.
• Distortion from Expansion of the Paper in Photography.
• If the photograph is cemented, while in the expanded condition, upon a rigid surface, the distortion then existing is fixed, and rendered permanent.
• This method of finishing has therefore been much recommended and adopted, but without consideration of the effect of distortion in connection with it.
• There is of course always to be found much distortion and exaggeration in these legends and tales, but they have truth at the bottom of them.
• To confess is, for mysterious reasons, most profoundly human, and in weak and nervous women this tendency is sometimes exaggerated to the actual distortion of facts.
• The Greek artist, say they, sedulously avoided that distortion of features through excessive grief, which was incompatible with beauty of form.
• They came headlong, guided by pine-torches, which threw their white and haggard faces into wild distortion.
• In the case of Germany the distortion of facts was deliberate and monstrous.
• He escaped that subtle distortion of mental perception from which others were likely to suffer because of long-sustained attention.

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