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a change for the worse distorted shape: a shape resulting from distortion aberration: an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image 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" the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
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| distress |
psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress" extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress" cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother" the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
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| distraught |
deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief"
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| distribution |
(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
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| distributive shock |
shock caused by poor distribution of the blood flow
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