An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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distortion
  چولگی، چولش  
cowlegi (#), cowleš
Fr.: distorsion, déformation  
  1. Extent to which a system, optical, acoustic, or electronic, fails to reproduce accurately at its output the characteristics of the input.

  2. Optics: An optical imperfection caused by a → lens or → system of lenses which results in → magnification differences between different points on the → image. The points on the → object are misplaced in the image relative to the → center of the → field. See also → barrel distortion;
    pincushion distortion.

See also: Verbal noun of → distort.