distortion
/dɪsˈtɔːʃən/
distortion noun: an act of distorting.
Noun
distortion (countable and uncountable, plural distortions)
- An act of distorting.
- A result of distorting.
- A misrepresentation of the truth.
- The story he told was a bit of a distortion.
- It was not until much later, in Stalin's time, that Marxists came to use 'ideology' to denote all forms of social consciousness, including those that were supposed to present a scientific account of the world, free from mystification and distortion.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
- Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
- This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.
- An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
- An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
distortion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
distortion in Hindi
- विकृति, विरूपण
distortion in Tamil
- உருக்குலைவு, உருத்திரிவு, உருத்திரிபு, உருமாற்றம், குலைபு, கோட்டம்
distortion in Marathi
- distortion
- विपर्यास viparyāsa, विरूपण virūpaṇ
- a distortion, deformity, or abnormal alteration from a natural, proper, or original state
- विकृती vikrutī
- distortion or corruption of an original form, meaning, or appearance
- विरूपण virūpaṇ
distortion in Urdu
- بگاڑ, کجی, تحریف
More languagesFewer languages
- distortion in Bengali
- বিকৃতি, বিকৃতকরণ
- distortion in Telugu
- వక్రీకరణ
- distortion in Malayalam
- ഭംഗം വരുത്തൽ, വിരൂപണം, അപഭ്രംശനം, വളച്ചുതിരിക്കൽ
- distortion in Kannada
- ವಿರೂಪಗೊಳಿಸುವುದು, ವಿರೂಪಗೊಳಿಸುವಿಕೆ
- distortion in Gujarati
- વિકૃતિ, વિરૂપણ
- distortion in Odia
- ବିକୃତି, ବିକୃତିକରଣ
- distortion in Nepali
- विकृति, विरूपण, विकृतिकरण
Examples of distortion in a sentence
- The conscious mind refuses to admit any failure to perceive, and puts in its place a series of rationalisations which are fabrications and distortions of the real nature of things.1999 July 9, Bernard Burgoyne, “The Mind”, in The Guardian:
- Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 204:
Synonyms of distortion
Forms of distortion
| plural | distortions |
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Origin of distortion
Borrowed from Latin distortio, distortionis, from distortus.
Words formed from distortion
- antiferrodistortion
- barrel distortion
- bias distortion
- bond distortion
- cognitive distortion
- counterdistortion
- digital pre-distortion
- distortional
- distortionary
- distortionist
- distortionless
- ferrodistortion
- microdistortion
- nondistortion
- pincushion distortion
- predistortion
- reality distortion field
- selective distortion
- undistortion
Phrases with distortion
Words that rhyme with distortion
Questions about distortion
- What does distortion mean?
- Distortion means an act of distorting.
- What is distortion in Hindi?
- Distortion in Hindi is विकृति, विरूपण. See Distortion meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use distortion in a sentence?
- The conscious mind refuses to admit any failure to perceive, and puts in its place a series of rationalisations which are fabrications and distortions of the real nature of things.
- What part of speech is distortion?
- Distortion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce distortion?
- Distortion is pronounced /dɪsˈtɔːʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of distortion?
- The plural of distortion is distortions.
Words near distortion in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: distortion (page history and authors); distortion (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); distortion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); विकृती (Marathi) (page history and authors); distortion (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Distortion (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); distortion (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); distortion (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); distortion (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); distortion (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); distortion (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); distortion (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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