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vääristymä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • distortion noun A change that twists something out of its normal shape or meaning.
  • skew verb To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  • warp noun A twist or distortion out of the normal or original shape.

Senses

vääristymä is used for these senses in English:

  • distortion A result of distorting.
  • distortion Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
  • skew (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  • warp (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.

distortion — full definition

  1. noun A change that twists something out of its normal shape or meaning.
  2. noun Unwanted noise or crackle added to sound, or a fuzzy effect used deliberately on electric guitars.

skew — full definition

  1. verb To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  2. verb To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
  3. verb To bias or distort in a particular direction.
  4. verb To hurl or throw.

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