Dictionary Entry
distortion
distortion is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.
- 2noun
A wresting from the true meaning.
- 3noun
The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion.
- 4noun
An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.
- 5noun
the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
- 6noun
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- 7noun
a change for the worse
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- 8noun
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
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- 9noun
a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
"heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion"
- 10noun
a shape resulting from distortion
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