Definition of Distortional

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Distortional

distonic
distopia
distopias
distoplacement
distopulpal
distort
distortable
distorted
distorted shape
distortedly
distorter
distorters
distorting
distortion
distortion aberration
distortional (current term)
distortionary
distortionist
distortionists
distortionless
distortions
distortive
distortively
distorts
distoversion
distract
distractable
distracted
distractedly
distractedness

Literary usage of Distortional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"For the simplest possible elementary distortional wave, begin with a globular portion in the interior of a large homogeneous elastic solid, ..."

2. Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light by William Thomson Kelvin (1904)
"The conditions to be fulfilled by the three components of displacement, f, rj, £ of a distortional wave are, in the first place, and we must have besides ..."

3. The Sub-mechanics of the Universe by Osborne Reynolds, Royal Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"from the consideration of the volumetric strain in the interpretation of the results of distortional strains as expressed in the three last terms within the ..."

4. Electrical Papers by Oliver Heaviside (1894)
"TAILS IN A distortional CIRCUIT. COMPLETE SOLUTIONS. Having in Sections XLIV and XLV discussed in some detail the effects due to resistances inserted in, ..."

5. The Physics of Earthquake Phenomena by Cargill Gilston Knott (1908)
"Two Types of Wave Motion in Solids, Condensational and distortional. Reflexion and Refraction of Elastic Waves and Boundary of two Media. Rock and Water. ..."

6. A Treatise on Physical Optics by Alfred Barnard Basset (1892)
"We shall now show, that the velocity of propagation of the distortional waves is determined by Fresnel's law. To satisfy (7) let u, v, ..."

7. Electromagnetic Theory by Oliver Heaviside (1893)
"First Example : Magnetic Force compared with Velocity in an incompressible Solid with distortional Elasticity. § 146. Comparisons between the propagation of ..."

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