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diˈstorted, ppl. a.
[f. prec. vb. + -ed1.]
1. Twisted out of shape; drawn awry; made crooked; represented with parts out of proportion, like the shadows falling obliquely on a surface.
1634Habington Castara (Arb.) 130 He who's lifted up by vice Hath a neighb'ring precipice Dazeling his distorted eye. 1715–20Pope Iliad xviii. 480 Wide with distorted legs oblique he goes. 1836H. Coleridge North. Worthies Introd. Ess. (1852) 26 To..represent the opinions..not in the distorted perspective of their adversaries. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. ii, He had fixed his eyes upon a distorted fir-tree.
2. fig. Turned awry; twisted, wrested.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. Pref. (1851) 96 The grosse distorted apprehension of decay'd mankinde. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 448 You see how distorted..his Exposition is to the Text. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 411 The fifth depends upon a distorted authority, and violent assumption.
Hence diˈstortedly adv.; diˈstortedness.
1684H. More Answer 407 There is not the least Incongruity or distortedness in Mr. Mede's way. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. iv. iv. (R.) To what purpose should they so violently and distortedly pervert the natural order? 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 1004 A glass that..would shew objects distortedly as well as dimly. 1885L. Oliphant Sympneumata x. 152 The sad distortedness that she inherited in entering this world.
Add:3. Electr. Of a signal or waveform: affected by electrical distortion.
1927Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. VI. 445 It is this distorted wave which acts in the plate circuit, instead of the pure sine wave operating with constant µ. 1935Wireless World 19 Apr. 397/2 An analysis of the distorted wave..shows that the predominant alien frequency is a second harmonic. 1962Newnes Conc. Encycl. Electr. Engin. 200/1 The distorted output wave form may contain the existing input components altered (1) in relative magnitude..or (2) in relative phase. 1991IEEE Trans. Power Delivery VII. 1161 Under distorted waveform conditions their readings can differ by several percent. |
