Synonyms for distortion
dɪˈstɔr ʃəndis·tor·tion

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1. distortion, deformationnoun

   a change for the worse

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, twisting, straining, contortion

2. distorted shape, distortionnoun

   a shape resulting from distortion

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, twisting, straining

3. aberration, distortion, optical aberrationnoun

   an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, deviance, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, aberrance, twisting, straining, aberrancy

4. distortionnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, twisting, straining

5. distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twistingnoun

   the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

   Synonyms:
   overrefinement, straining, strain, torturing, spin, twist, optical aberration, twisting, aberration, whirl, twirl, deformation, agony, torture, distorted shape, anguish, torment

6. distortionnoun

   the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, twisting, straining

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1. • Acoustic Phenomenon
   • Damage
   • Electrical Phenomenon
   • Mistake
   • Optical Phenomenon

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1. distortionnoun

   Synonyms:
   twist, wryness, contortion, deformity

2. distortionnoun

   Synonyms:
   perversion, misrepresentation, falsification

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1. distortionnoun

   Synonyms:
   deformity, perversion, crookedness, falsification

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1. List of paraphrases for "distortion":

   distorting, deformation, warp, distortions, misrepresentation, denaturation, bias, disruption, strain, perversion, distort, denaturing, distortive, mutilation, skew

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1. Paulo Cesar Silva:

   Given the support, Bombardier has been very aggressive, to the point of offering planes at prices below their production costs. That's what the numbers show, it causes a major distortion in the market. We're not competing with a private enterprise any more. We're competing with the government.

2. Laurel Bossen:

   You have to link hands and feet. Footbound women did valuable handwork at home in cottage industries. The image of them as idle sexual trophies is a grave distortion of history.

3. Halton Cheadle:

   The exclusivity clauses in the lease agreements may be causing distortion in the grocery retail sector by entrenching barriers to entry and expansion, a single national grocery retailer operating in a shopping centre may be in a position to charge higher prices due to lack of competition.

4. President Nicolas Maduro:

   If you want, crucify me, kill me, the price is a distortion ... I think the time has come ... to do it this year. I assume the responsibility and the criticisms.

5. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   We see what's happening in the Middle East, where terrorists from the so-called Islamic State are discrediting the great world religion of Islam, planting hatred, killing people, destroying world cultural monuments in a barbaric way, their ideology is based on a lie, on a distortion of Islam.