Synonyms for distortion

noun

• a change for the worse
• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
• a shape resulting from distortion
• 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)
• the mistake of misrepresenting the facts