distortion vs warping

distortion and warping both are nouns.

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

As nouns, warping is a hyponym of distortion; that is, warping is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than distortion:

Other hyponyms of distortion include warp.

distortion (noun)	warping (noun)
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean	a moral or mental distortion
the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
a change for the worse
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
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 shape resulting from distortion