[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

distortion \distor"tion\, n. l. distortio: cf. f. distortion.
   1. the act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or
      regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the
      distortions of the face or body.
      1913 webster

   2. a wresting from the true meaning. --bp. wren.
      1913 webster

   3. the state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or
      out of true position; crookedness; perversion.
      1913 webster

   4. med. an unnatural deviation of shape or position of any
      part of the body producing visible deformity.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

distortion
     n 1: a change for the worse syn: deformation
     2: a shape resulting from distortion syn: distorted shape
     3: an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens
        or mirror to produce a good image syn: aberration, optical
        aberration
     4: 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"
     5: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean
        something it was not intended to mean syn: overrefinement,
         straining, torture, twisting
     6: the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
see also:
deformation distorted shape aberration optical aberration overrefinement straining 
torture twisting 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

215 moby thesaurus words for "distortion":
   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

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