distortion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A misrepresentation of the truth.

   The story he told was a bit of a distortion.

2. 2
   noun

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

   This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.

3. 3
   noun

   the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

4. 4
   noun

   the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

5. 5
   noun

   a change for the worse

6. 6
   noun

   an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

7. 7
   noun

   a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal

8. 8
   noun

   a shape resulting from distortion

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distortio, distortionis, from distortus.