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distortion

noun
/dɪsˈtɔːʃən/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distortio, distortionis, from distortus.

  1. borrowed from distortio

Definitions

  1. An act of distorting.

  2. A result of distorting.

  3. A misrepresentation of the truth.

    • 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.
    • Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.

      • This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.

    2. An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.

    3. An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.

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Derived

antiferrodistortion, barrel distortion, bias distortion, bond distortion, cognitive distortion, counterdistortion, digital pre-distortion, distortional, distortionary, distortionist, distortionless, ferrodistortion, microdistortion, nondistortion, pincushion distortion, predistortion, reality distortion field, selective distortion, undistortion

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at distortion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at distortion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at distortion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA