Synonyms: distortion
Definition: the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
Similar words: mistake, error, fault
Definition: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Usage: he made a bad mistake; she was quick to point out my errors; I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
Synonyms: twisting, torture, straining, distortion, overrefinement
Definition: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Similar words: falsification, misrepresentation
Definition: a willful perversion of facts
Synonyms: distortion, deformation
Definition: a change for the worse
Similar words: damage, impairment, harm
Definition: the occurrence of a change for the worse
Synonyms: optical aberration, aberration, distortion
Definition: an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
Similar words: optical phenomenon
Definition: a physical phenomenon related to or involving light
Synonyms: distortion
Definition: 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)
Usage: heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion
Similar words: acoustic phenomenon
Definition: a physical phenomenon associated with the production or transmission of sound
Similar words: electrical phenomenon
Definition: a physical phenomenon involving electricity
Synonyms: distorted shape, distortion
Definition: a shape resulting from distortion
Definition: the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
Usage: geometry is the mathematical science of shape