Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to distortion or change of form under stress.
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Examples
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His original comment about it being fine was a distortional response, attempting to twist the intent of the question that was being asked of him.
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That fits, while your concept of distortional perception is bound to have a continuum, not the all-or-nothing results actually received.subpatreQuote
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That fits, while your concept of distortional perception is bound to have a continuum, not the all-or-nothing results actually received.
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So it is cavalier and distortional for the NCPA paper to disregard our system's cost and access problems while claiming that our system compares favorably with other developed countries.
John Geyman: "Facts" About American Health Care Revisited 2009
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Commanders and intelligence officers expressing such frustration at what they see is the distortional reinterpretation of their work before it reaches people like the president.
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And if it does, there's so many disconnects in between and so many filters that I, time and time again, come across commanders and intelligence officers expressing such frustration at what they see as the distortional reinterpretation of their work before it reaches people like the president, their commander in chief, Wolf.
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Not only has the latent and real inflation represented by a huge buildup in the monetary base put pressure on the U.S. dollar and caused gold to soar, but it has also sent an egregious and distortional price signal for U.S. debt securities.
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The measure for the element distortional deformation can be chosen to be twice continuously differentiable, so that the explicit derivatives can easily be implemented in a finite element method.
iMechanica - Comments Arash_Yavari 2009
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The measure for the element distortional deformation can be chosen to be twice continuously differentiable, so that the explicit derivatives can easily be implemented in a finite element method.
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