distomatosis
- n a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products
distortion
- n a change for the worse
- n a shape resulting from distortion
- n an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- n 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 - n the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- n the mistake of misrepresenting the facts