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distortion
  1. An act of distorting.
  2. A result of distorting.
  3. A misrepresentation of the truth.
  4. Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
  5. An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
  6. (optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “The method employed results in a distortion of the metal used to form the sign after embossing the letters therein.”
      “The editing of documentary footage often leads to a distortion of the event.”
      “The crew entertained the crowd with their antics, which primarily involved a crass distortion of recent events.”
distortedness
  1. The quality of being distorted.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It seems like anyone with a resolution of 1204x768 or lower views my site with distortedness, anyone have any idea?”
      “The live lineup has been augmented with electric guitarist Erik who adds a bit of low end distortedness to the whole thing.”
      “It is insensitive to noise, distortedness, and text orientation.”
distortiveness
  1. Quality of being distortive.
distorter
  1. One that distorts.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Accessible, emotive, the ultimate conveyor or distorter of truth, the photograph is all-powerful.”
      “Urdu, a distorter of tongues, pilfering as it does from Persian, Hindi, but largely Arabic, uses the masculine word for coup d'etat – inqilab – for revolution, rather than the accurate feminine: thawra.”
      “Very soon we realise that this film is not merely set in LA, it's about Hollywood as a place, an industry, a creator and shaper of dreams and narratives, a distorter and destroyer of lives.”
distortionist
  1. One who distorts.
distortionists
  1. plural of distortionist
distortions
  1. plural of distortion
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Absent government-imposed distortions, a fool and his money are soon parted.”
      “I'm thinking specifically about his emphasis on distortions within structuring elements of physical and representational space.”
      “Was it the quants who failed to imagine how big price distortions could get across all markets when liquidity evaporates?”
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