English-Swedish translations for distortion

• förvrängning en
  Självbedrägeri eller medveten förvrängning?Delusion or conscious distortion?
  Skall vi bygga vårt europeiska hem på en förvrängning av historien?Are we to build the European home on a distortion of history?
  Vad som i dag har påståtts är en påtaglig förvrängning av sanningen.What has been said today is a manifest distortion of the truth.
• distortion en
• förvränging en

Definition of distortion

• An act of distorting
• A misrepresentation of the truth
• Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music
• An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal

Synonyms

• deformation
• disfigurement

Examples

• The story he told was a bit of a distortion.
• This recording sounds awful due to the distortion.

Related words

• distortion factor
• distortion of competition
• aeroelastic distortion
• chromatic distortion