<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of distorting.</li><li>the state of being distorted or the relative degree or amount by which something is distorted.</li><li>anything that is distorted, as a sound, image, fact, etc.</li><li>Optics: an aberration of a lens or system of lenses in which the magnification of the object varies with the lateral distance from the axis of the lens.</li></ul>