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distortion

A distortion is a change to the original (or normal) shape (or characteristic) of something. It can apply to objects, images, sounds, or information. He told her the story, but it was a distortion of the truth.

distortion

a change for the worse a shape resulting from distortion (= aberration) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image 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 the mistake of misrepresenting the facts the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

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We experience and understand the world through signals that are received by the senses and interpreted by the brain - and both stages are subject to distortion.
It's a gross distortion of the truth.

Movie subtitles

Add up all these wrong angles. and you get one big distortion in the house as a whole.
Definitely humanoid, in spite of the distortion.
Complete disruption of magnetic and gravimetric fields, timewarp distortion, possible radiation variations.
Unquestionably a warp. A distortion of physical laws on an immense scale.
Severe brain haemorrhaging. Due to distortion of all neural systems.
What's the distortion?
Whenever a creature appears or disappears, the temporal displacement causes a localised distortion in time.
CYBER CONTROLLER: Distortion on our radarscope is increasing.
Wormhole distortion has overloaded the main power systems.
It's the end of civilisation as we know it, as well as being a gross distortion of the truth.
Distortion? Art cannot survive without public subsidy.
A vulgar distortion of German nationalism.
Temporal distortion is extremely severe.
But that's distortion.
That's why we need to figure out a way to correct the distortion of this injustice.
Exactly. And in a form not subject to distortion.
We experienced extreme sensory distortion, and we shall do so again if we attempt to use warp speed.
Could Kollos function despite the sensory distortion?
I cannot filter out the distortion, sir. It's getting worse.
That's another distortion of the truth.
Due to distortion of all neural systems.
Distortion has overloaded power systems.
Distortion?
Sounds like a distortion of an Irish folk tune.
Time warp distortion, impossible radiation variations, and all of them centering in the general area which you are now patrolling.
Unquestionably, a warp, a distortion of physical laws, on an immense scale.
This is a gross distortion!
I cannot filter out the distortion, sir.
A temporal distortion of my metabolism.
It's a time distortion.
If you travelled more than 1 80,000 miles per second, you'd encounter the time distortion effect.

News and current affairs

A second IMF accounting distortion involves stabilization funds.
This is obvious to most Israelis, who also view this dominant role as a distortion of their ancient moral and religious values.
A general principle for an efficient tax system is to collect a given amount of revenue (corresponding in the long run to the government's spending) in a way that causes as little distortion as possible to the overall economy.
A further distortion stems from the prudential regulation adopted in reaction to the global financial crisis.
As Milosevic showed again in the 1990s, when he claimed to be defending innocent Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia, justifying military intervention solely on the basis of moral principles leaves too much room for their distortion and abuse.
Unfortunately, this leaves plenty of room for distortion and bias.
Ceding the immigration debate to extremists has abetted another extraordinary distortion: people generally believe that the number of immigrants in their countries is far higher than it actually is.
Moreover, a distortion of private incentives affects public incentives as well, and the two become intertwined.
Europe's leaders did not recognize this rising danger, which could easily be averted by a common guarantee, which would simultaneously correct the market distortion arising from the differential implicit subsidy.
That distortion will become apparent even within the countries that benefit from the additional credit, because Eurobonds will, for the time being, provide security only for government debt.
Perhaps gold, a store of value impervious to physical distortion, could make a comeback.
If the track record of previous inspections holds true, Iraq will not come clean, and the inspectors will have to work their way through a maze of deception and distortion.
Jesse Fried and I warned about this short-term distortion five years ago, in our book Pay without Performance.
To address this distortion, the payoffs of financial executives should be tied not to the long-term value of their firms' common shares but to the long-term value of a broader basket of securities.
Choking off the flow of information leads to distortion, not confidence.
This is the real trade distortion in the global economy - one in which millions of poor people in developing countries are hurt as America helps some of the world's richest farmers.
A year ago, knowing full well that Iran was irreversibly on its way to getting the bomb, he soberly challenged Netanuyahu's dangerous distortion of history.
This distortion is perceived to be one of the main causes of the 2008 financial crisis.
Today, trade in agricultural products is exposed to far greater distortion than is trade in other goods.

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