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Feb 15, 2012
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dis•tor•tion



Pronunciation: (di-stôr'shun), [key]
—n.
1. an act or instance of distorting.
2. the state of being distorted or the relative degree or amount by which something is distorted or distorts.
3. anything that is distorted, as a sound, image, fact, etc.
4. 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. Cf. barrel distortion, pincushion distortion.

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