| distort | 1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. "Whose face was distorted with pain." (Thackeray) 2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. "Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men." (Tillotson) 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. Synonym: To twist, wrest, deform, pervert. Origin: Distorted; Distorting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| distortion | The state of being twisted out of a natural or normal shape or position. Origin: L. Dis = apart, torsio = a twisting (18 Nov 1997) |
| distortion aberration | The faulty formation of an image arising because the magnification of the peripheral part of an object is different from that of the central part when viewed through a lens. (05 Mar 2000) |
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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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Restrictions that prevent the market from equating social benefits and costs of an economic activity. For example, the market price of cigarettes does not reflect the indirect effect (externally) on third parties (other than the producer and the smoker), resulting in too many cigarettes being produced and consumed. The total social cost of smoking is higher than the private cost.
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Nonrealistic reproduction, or nonideal formation. In optics, it is an imperfection in an image caused by an imperfection in the optical system by which the image is produced. In electronics, distortion is a change in waveform of a signal that occurs upon passage of the signal through an instrument. Crystal distortion is the expansion of a crystal lattice near any crystal boundary surface.
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Any departure from the ideal of perfect competition that interferes with economic agents maximizing social welfare when they maximize their own. Includes taxes and subsidies, tariffs and NTBs, externalities, incomplete information, and imperfect competition.
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A Change in the shape of a part due to the action of mechanical forces.
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| distort | alter the shape of (something) by stress |
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| distort | make false by mutilation or addition |
| distort | distort |
| distort | form into a spiral shape |
| distort | twist and press out of shape |
| distort | capable of having the meaning altered or twisted |
| distort | having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented |
| distort | so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly |
| distort | strained or wrenched out of normal shape |
| distort | a shape resulting from distortion |
| distort | the mistake of misrepresenting the facts |
| distort | the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean |
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