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distortion

English

  1. 🔊 the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
  2. 🔊 the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
  3. 🔊 a change for the worse
  4. 🔊 a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal
    “heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion”
  5. 🔊 an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
  6. 🔊 a shape resulting from distortion

Spanish

  1. 🔊 distorsión distortion

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