distortion

Noun

• the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

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

• 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
    

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

• a shape resulting from distortion

• a change for the worse

Related words

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