optical phenomenon vs distortion

distortion vs optical phenomenon

optical phenomenon and distortion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
optical phenomenon	Yes	No	No	No
distortion	Yes	No	No	No

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

optical phenomenon: a physical phenomenon related to or involving light
distortion: an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

Other hyponyms of optical phenomenon include aberration, optical aberration, absorption band, diffraction, fringe, interference fringe, incidence, optical illusion, pleochroism, polarisation, polarization, parallax, Tyndall effect.

optical phenomenon (noun)	distortion (noun)
a physical phenomenon related to or involving light	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
	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

Difference between optical phenomenon and distortion

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