distortion
substantivoatestado nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//dɪsˈtɔːʃən//
An act of distorting.
substantivo
- 1
An act of distorting.
- 2
A result of distorting.
- 3
A misrepresentation of the truth.
The story he told was a bit of a distortion.
It was not until much later, in Stalin's time, that Marxists came to use 'ideology' to denote all forms of social consciousness, including those that were supposed to present a scientific account of the world, free from mystification and distortion.
The conscious mind refuses to admit any failure to perceive, and puts in its place a series of rationalisations which are fabrications and distortions of the real nature of things.
Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'.
- 4
Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.
- 5
An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
- 6
An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
Etimologia
Borrowed from Latin distortio, distortionis, from distortus.
Formas
- plural
- distortions