distortion
/dɪsˈtɔːʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.55 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The story he told was a bit of a distortion."
- "It was not until much later, in Stalin's time, that Marxists came to use 'ideology' to denote all forms of social consciousness, including those that were supposed to present a scientific account of the world, free from mystification and distortion."
- "The conscious mind refuses to admit any failure to perceive, and puts in its place a series of rationalisations which are fabrications and distortions of the real nature of things."
- "Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'."
- "This recording sounds awful due to the distortion."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin distortio, distortionis, from distortus.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dɪsˈtɔːʃən/