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Definition of Distorted shape
1. Noun. A shape resulting from distortion.
Generic synonyms: Form, Shape
Specialized synonyms: Contortion, Crookedness, Torsion, Tortuosity, Tortuousness, Buckle, Warp, Gnarl, Knot
Derivative terms: Distort, Distort, Distortionist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distorted Shape
Literary usage of Distorted shape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1919)
"The distorted shape of the chief image is due not to distortion but to curvature,
the former aberration not appearing at all in the simple case of ..."
2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1919)
"The reasons for designating these two extreme images "comatic" and "astigmatic"
is given in "Science", vol. XLVIII, pp. 459-460. The distorted shape of the ..."
3. The Kohl Collection (now in the Library of Congress) of Maps Relating to America by Justin Winsor, Philip Lee Phillips, Johann Georg Kohl (1904)
"Then in the Nordenskiöld gores, in the Schöner globes of 1515 and 1520, and in
the Apian cordiform map of 1520 we have the same distorted shape, but joined ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design by Henry Vincent Hubbard, ( (1917)
"... stands between one open area and another, the best development of the shapes
of the open areas may produce a distorted shape of the intervening mass. ..."
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