distortion vs error

error vs distortion

distortion and error both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
distortion	Yes	No	No	No
error	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, error is a hypernym of distortion; that is, error is a word with a broader meaning than distortion:

distortion: the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
error: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

Other hypernyms of distortion include fault, mistake.

distortion (noun)	error (noun)
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean	a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
the mistake of misrepresenting the facts	(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
a change for the worse	inadvertent incorrectness
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image	departure from what is ethically acceptable
a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)	a misconception resulting from incorrect information
a shape resulting from distortion	part of a statement that is not correct
	(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

Difference between distortion and error

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