Similar words: distort, distorted, extortion, contortion, extortionate, disproportionate, disproportionately, proportional representation. Meaning: [dɪ'stɔːʃn] n. 1. a change for the worse 2. a shape resulting from distortion 3. an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image 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) 5. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean 6. the mistake of misrepresenting the facts.
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31. This mistake has led them at best into errors of judgment and distortion of fact and at worst into academic hucksterism.
32. I always prefer players with some colour and individuality in their sound, usually with some distortion.
33. Such anxieties are still informed by nineteenth-century pseudo-scientific genetic and biological explanations of racial difference and comprise distortion, fantasy and myth.
34. Moreover, an obsessive focus on Caravaggio panders to fashion and is a gross distortion of history.
35. Can a distortion of past events really produce a healthy outlook on life?
36. The repressor also recognizes sequence-dependent distortion or flexibility of the operator phosphate backbone, conferring specificity even for inaccessible base pairs.
37. The pursuit of equity through redistribution taxation is not the only distortion that can lead to allocative inefficiency.
38. Having checked the levels at rehearsal, the producer sets the recorder soas to just avoid distortion on the loudest passages.
39. Presentational infidelity is less clear-cut and less readily identifiable than selectivity or measurement distortion.
40. It, however, seems necessary to carry out further research into adaptation to prismatic distortion in order to isolate the exact cause.
41. And with the treble boost you can push it hard, smoothly into distortion.
42. Intermodulation A consequence of some forms of harmonic distortion is that a strong signal modules a weak one.
43. Communication is a social practice and even if systematic distortion is removed, existential determination is not.
44. In fact this division into distortion effects and volume-change is not quite so clear-cut as I have presented it.
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45. This has led to an alternative way of stating amplifier performance: compare the distortion plus noise with the total output.
46. Some programs maintain the aspect ratio between width and height whilst scaling, thereby avoiding distortion.
47. Every day he punched cards, punched and punched, trying to avoid instability, divergence, distortion.
48. The term ideology is often used to suggest a distortion, a false picture of reality.
49. These phenomena show up as excess noise, distortion and reduced tube life.
50. Because their distortion is easier on the ear, tube designs tend to far exceed their rated power.
51. Much of the remainder of this chapter is devoted to analysing this distortion.
52. In addition, even if overall negative feedback is used, it has low overall distortion.
53. Crossover distortion is actually due to the fact that the two halves of the circuit are not perfectly matched.
54. Unless there is any redress to this distortion, the marginal products of labour will not be equal.
55. Five push buttons take care of the full-speed play, half-speed play, record, instrument distortion and stop options.
56. When glass fibre tubular spars were standard practice, leading edge distortion would form an otherwise straight line into a swan-neck shape!
57. This leads to a simple way of stating the amount of distortion: as the ratio of harmonics to fundamental.
58. A more reasonable figure is given by comparing distortion with total power, i.e. with fundamental plus distortion.
59. When checked for straightness, this crankshaft was found to have little or no distortion.
60. Sky, clouds, then down into the closed world of water sound distortion.
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