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 |
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) | the mistake of misrepresenting the facts |
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | a change for the worse |
responsibility for a bad situation or event | an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image |
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.) | 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) |
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | a shape resulting from distortion |
an imperfection in an object or machine | |