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Using this phone, the person I was speaking to said I sounded distant, with more distortion. His grimy guitar, with lots of distortion, is key to the band's sound. The system corrects for distortion caused by sound bouncing off glass or being absorbed by upholstery. They use DC-coupled amplifiers for low distortion.
The meaning of DISTORTION is the act of twisting or altering something out of its true, natural, or original state : the act of distorting. How to use distortion in a sentence.
With respect to audio, distortion refers to any kind of deformation of an output waveform compared to its input, usually clipping, harmonic distortion, or intermodulation distortion (mixing phenomena) caused by non-linear behavior of electronic components and power supply limitations.
A distortion is a change, twist, or exaggeration that makes something appear different from the way it really is. You can distort an image, a thought, or even an idea. To say that I never take out the garbage is a distortion of the facts.
Origin of terms. The names for these distortions come from familiar objects which are visually similar. In barrel distortion, straight lines bulge outwards at the center, as in a barrel. In pincushion distortion, corners of squares form elongated points, as in a cushion.
anything that is distorted, distorted, as a sound, image, fact, etc. Optics. an aberration of a lens or system of lenses in which the magnification of the object varies with the lateral distance from the axis of the lens. distortion. / dɪˈstɔːʃən /.
Definition of distortion noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
