as in deformation
the twisting of something out of its natural or normal shape or condition
had to total the car due to a distortion of the chassis resulting from collision
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Recent Examples of distortion
At the higher doses, most people had brief hallucinations or visual distortions, along with some nausea and headaches.
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Dr. Christian S. Monsalve, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
Unlike conventional luminescent or scattering-based concentrators, which often suffer from visual distortion, low efficiency, and poor scalability, the new CUSC delivers broadband, polarization-selective diffraction and efficient waveguiding while preserving complete visual clarity.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Users note that distortion and vignetting are well-controlled and require minimal correction in post-processing.
—Harry Bennett, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Users reported strange artifacts, edge distortion, and distracting smoothness that gives the appearance of AI alteration.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
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Dr. Christian S. Monsalve, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
Unlike conventional luminescent or scattering-based concentrators, which often suffer from visual distortion, low efficiency, and poor scalability, the new CUSC delivers broadband, polarization-selective diffraction and efficient waveguiding while preserving complete visual clarity.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Users note that distortion and vignetting are well-controlled and require minimal correction in post-processing.
—Harry Bennett, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Users reported strange artifacts, edge distortion, and distracting smoothness that gives the appearance of AI alteration.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distortion
deformation
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The results showed that at a pressure of 69 gigapascals (GPa), the diamond only exhibited elastic deformation, retaining its defect-free lattice.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Aug. 2025
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Past studies have observed tissue deformations that suggest cells apply force — when migrating and invading tumors, for example — and Ojosnegros and his team wanted to explore the hypothesis that this also happens in implantation.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Distortion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distortion. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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