distortion en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /dɪsˈtɔːʃən/ (UK)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin distortio, distortionis, from distortus.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) An act of distorting.
- (countable, uncountable) A result of distorting.
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(countable, uncountable) A misrepresentation of the truth.
Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 204:The story he told was a bit of a distortion.
The conscious mind refuses to admit any failure to perceive, and puts in its place a series of rationalisations which are fabrications and distortions of the real nature of things.
1999 July 9, Bernard Burgoyne, “The Mind”, in The Guardian:It was not until much later, in Stalin's time, that Marxists came to use 'ideology' to denote all forms of social consciousness, including those that were supposed to present a scientific account of the world, free from mystification and distortion.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 154:
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(countable, uncountable) Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.
- (countable, uncountable) An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
- (countable, uncountable) An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| distortions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
undistortion · barrel distortion · predistortion · ferrodistortion · microdistortion · bond distortion · distortionist · cognitive distortion · selective distortion · distortionary · nondistortion · distortionless · pincushion distortion · reality distortion field · distortional · digital pre-distortion · bias distortion · antiferrodistortion · counterdistortion
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Translations (78)
ca distorsió (misrepresentation of the truth) · ru искривле́ние (act of distorting) · de Verzerrung (act of distorting) · uk викривлення (misrepresentation of the truth) · pt distorção (misrepresentation of the truth) · de Verformung (misrepresentation of the truth) · el παραμόρφωση (effect used in music) · bg изкривяване (noise) · bg изкривяване (result of distorting) · mi hohōtanga (noise) · ru искривле́ние (result of distorting) · bg изопачаване (misrepresentation of the truth) · ru дисто́рсия (noise) · sv förvrängning (act of distorting) · el παραποίηση (misrepresentation of the truth) · de Verzerrung (noise) · hu meghamisítás (misrepresentation of the truth) · bg изкривяване (act of distorting) · bg деформация (result of distorting) · el διαστροφή (misrepresentation of the truth) · pl dystorsja (optics) · da fordrejelse, forvridning, forvrængning (act of distorting) · mi whakahawenga (act of distorting) · pt distorção (act of distorting) · el διαστρέβλωση (act of distorting) · de Verzerrung (result of distorting) · de Verzerrung (misrepresentation of the truth) · fi vääristely (misrepresentation of the truth) · fr distorsion (act of distorting) · fr distorsion (result of distorting) · it distorsione (act of distorting) · de Verdrehung (act of distorting) · ru искривле́ние (noise) · fi vääristyminen (result of distorting) · de Verwindung (act of distorting) · cmn 歪曲 (misrepresentation of the truth) · sv förvrängning (misrepresentation of the truth) · eo distordo (act of distorting) · ru искаже́ние (act of distorting) · sv förvrängning (result of distorting) · ru дисто́ршн (effect used in music) · el παραμόρφωση (noise) · sv förvränging (noise) · fr distorsion (effect used in music) · el διαστρέβλωση (result of distorting) · ca distorsió (act of distorting) · de Verzerrung (effect used in music) · ru искаже́ние (result of distorting) · ru искаже́ние (misrepresentation of the truth) · fi särö (effect used in music) · da distortion (effect used in music) · pt distorção (effect used in music) · de Zerrbild (misrepresentation of the truth) · es distorsión (result of distorting) · cs zkreslení (result of distorting) · pt distorção (noise) · fi vääristely (act of distorting) · pl zniekształcenie (result of distorting) · fi vääristymä (noise) · pt distorção (result of distorting) · de Verformung (result of distorting) · cmn 形变 (result of distorting) · fi vääristymä (result of distorting) · ca distorsió (result of distorting) · el παραμόρφωση (result of distorting) · de Enstellung (result of distorting) · ro distorsiune (act of distorting) · hu eltorzítás (misrepresentation of the truth) · sv distortion (noise) · ru искаже́ние (noise) · fi vääristäminen (act of distorting) · es distorsión (act of distorting) · de Verformung (act of distorting) · cmn 扭曲 (act of distorting) · ru дисто́рсия (result of distorting) · el διαστρέβλωση (misrepresentation of the truth) · el παραμόρφωση (act of distorting) · bg измятане (act of distorting)