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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024dis•tor•tion /dɪˈstɔrʃən/USA pronunciation n. - an act of distorting or the state of being distorted: [uncountable]The candidates accused the media of deliberate distortion.[countable]That story as written contains nothing but lies and distortions.
- badly reproduced electronic signals: [countable]a number of distortions introduced into the recording.[uncountable]too much distortion of the image.
See -tort-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dis•tor•tion (di stôr′shən),USA pronunciation n. - an act or instance of distorting.
- the state of being distorted or the relative degree or amount by which something is distorted or distorts.
- anything that is distorted, as a sound, image, fact, etc.
- Opticsan aberration of a lens or system of lenses in which the magnification of the object varies with the lateral distance from the axis of the lens. Cf. barrel distortion, pincushion distortion.
- Latin distortiōn- (stem of distortiō). See distort, -ion
- 1575–85
dis•tor′tion•al, dis•tor′tion•ar′y, adj. |