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retrodeformation

noun

Etymology

From retro- + deformation.

  1. derived from dēfōrmis — “departing physically from the correct shape, deformed, malformed, misshapen, ugly; (figuratively) departing morally from the correct quality, base, disgraceful, shameful, unbecoming”
  2. derived from deforme
  3. inherited from deforme — “out of shape, deformed”
  4. suffixed as deformation — “deform + ation”
  5. prefixed as retrodeformation — “retro + deformation”

Definitions

  1. A process that produces the original form of a deformed object (or, more often, its image)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retrodeformation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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