error vs distortion

distortion vs error

error and distortion both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of error include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

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

Difference between error and distortion

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