Usually means: Alteration of original form, sound.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. distortion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. distortion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distortion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distortion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distortion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Distortion, distortion: Wordnik
  7. distortion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. distortion: Wiktionary
  9. distortion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. distortion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. distortion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. distortion: Dictionary.com
  13. distortion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Distortion (Babymetal song), Distortion (Forbidden album), Distortion (Game Theory EP), Distortion (Jessica Sutta song), Distortion (Joseph Simmons album), Distortion (Run album), Distortion (The Magnetic Fields album), Distortion (disambiguation), Distortion (economics), Distortion (guitar), Distortion (mathematics), Distortion (music), Distortion (optics), Distortion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Distortion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. distortion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. distortion: Rhymezone
  18. Distortion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. distortion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. distortion: Free Dictionary
  21. distortion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. distortion: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Distortion: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. distortion: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Distortion: Game Dictionary
  2. Distortion (electronic circuits), distortion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Distortion (electronic circuits), distortion: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Distortion: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Distortion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. distortion: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. distortion: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  7. Distortion: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  8. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  9. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Distortion: Fiberglass Glossary
  11. DISTORTION: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  12. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  14. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  15. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See distortional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act of distorting.
noun:  A result of distorting.
noun:  A misrepresentation of the truth.
noun:  Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
noun:  An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
noun:  (optics) An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.

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