Distortion

Noun

 * 1) An act of distorting.
 * 2) A result of distorting.
 * 3) A misrepresentation of the truth.
 * The story he told was a bit of a distortion.
 * 1) Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
 * This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.
 * 1) An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.

Adjectives
pale; fatal; obvious; imbedded; elaborated; ludicrous; intentional; fantastic.

Thesaurus
aberrancy, aberration, abstractionism, abuse of terms, anamorphosis, apparent soundness, bad likeness, birdies, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, blooping, blurping, botch, bulla, burlesque, caricature, casuistry, catachresis, check, cicatrix, circularity, coloring, comedo, confabulation, contorting, crack, crater, craze, daub, defacement, defect, defectiveness, deflection, deflexure, deformation, deformity, delusion, deviancy, diffraction, diffusion, disfiguration, disfigurement, disingenuousness, dispersion, eisegesis, equivocalness, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, evasive reasoning, exaggeration, expressionism, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, false swearing, falseness, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fault, faultiness, feedback, flaw, flawedness, flection, flexure, flutter, fluttering, freckle, garbling, gloss, hamartia, hemangioma, heresy, heterodoxy, hickey, hissing, howling, hum, hyperbole, illusion, inaccuracy, injustice, insincerity, jesuitism, jesuitry, keloid, kink, lentigo, litotes, malconformation, malentendu, malformation, malobservation, milium, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, miscoloring, misconception, misconstruction, misdoing, misdrawing, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mispainting, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, misrepresentation, misshape, misstatement, misteaching, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse of words, mole, motorboating, mystification, needle scar, nevus, nonrealism, obfuscation, obscurantism, overdrawing, overstatement, oversubtlety, parody, peccancy, perjury, perversion, philosophism, pimple, pit, plausibility, plausibleness, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prevarication, pustule, rationalization, refraction, rift, rumble, scab, scar, scatter, scratch, scratching, scribble, sebaceous cyst, self-contradiction, shredding, sin, sinfulness, skewness, slanting, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, split, squeals, squeezing, static, straining, strawberry mark, sty, subtlety, torsion, torturing, track, travesty, twist, twisting, understatement, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, verruca, vesicle, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whistles, whitehead, woomping, wow, wowwows, wrenching, wrong, wrongness

Translations

 * Bulgarian: изкривяване, измятане
 * Danish: fordrejelse, forvridning, forvrængning
 * Finnish: vääristäminen,


 * German:, ,
 * Greek: διαστρέβλωση, παραμόρφωση
 * Swedish: förvrängning


 * Bulgarian: изкривяване, деформация
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: vääristyminen,


 * German:, ,
 * Greek: διαστρέβλωση, παραμόρφωση
 * Swedish: förvrängning


 * Bulgarian: изопачаване
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,


 * Greek: διαστρέβλωση, παραποίηση, διαστροφή
 * Hungarian: eltorzítás, meghamisítás
 * Swedish: förvrängning


 * Bulgarian: изкривяване
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek: παραμόρφωση
 * Swedish: distortion, förvränging


 * Danish:
 * German:


 * Greek: παραμόρφωση


 * : corruption, déformation , aberration

Noun

 * 1) distortion