distortion

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The comments have provoked outrage, with politicians in France and Germany vocal in condemning what they termed a distortion of the scientific evidence that risked putting many more lives at risk in sub-Saharan Africa, where millions are living with the disease.

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  1. noun The act or an instance of distorting.
  2. noun The condition of being distorted.
  3. noun A statement that twists fact; a misrepresentation.
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  • The unauthorized space-time distortion was affecting the entire year's time-line, but the distortion was strongest at the beginning and the end of 1999. —  AnalogSFF,Jan/Feb2004
  • At the wide angle end of the zoom range there is significant barrel distortion, which is not uncommon in this class of camera. —  DigitalCameraReview.com Digital Camera News and Reviews
  • I don't like hearing hiss or the distortion, which comes along with analogue recordings. —  Big Picture Big Sound - Home Theater, HDTV, Movie Reviews
  • The time course and magnitude of this distortion are similar to the mislocalization found psychophysically in humans. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This omission of "human shields" from a human rights analysis of any asymmetric combat adds to the overall distortion, and to HRW's highly misleading characterization of many aspects of the Gaza situation. —  NGO Monitor Research
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  1. = Old French destorcion, French distorsion = Italian distorsione, storsione, from Latin distortio(n-), from distorquere, distort: see distort, v.
 

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