where did the word distort come from and what was the definition????

Answer 1

distort [di stáwrt]
(3rd person present singular - distorts, present participle - distorting, past - distorted, past participle - distorted)
verb
1. vt - give an inaccurate report of something: to describe or report something in a way that is inaccurate or misleading
2. vti - alter shape: to bend, twist, stretch, or change from a normal or natural shape, or make something do this
3. vt - make something unnatural or unclear: to change something such as an image in such a way that it becomes unclear or unrecognizable
4. vt electronic engineering - reproduce inaccurately: to amplify or reproduce something, for example a radio signal, inaccurately


[15th century. From the Latin past participle stem distort- of distorquere , literally ‘to twist completely’, from torquere ‘to twist’.]


-distorter, noun
-distortive, adjective

Answer 2

Ii SEEM TO REMEMBER THE USE OF THIE TERM IN OPTICAL. PHYSICS. They refered to mirrors that

change, alter o distort your reflected image

Answer 3

lt is a latin word meaning to twist out of shape, to make look awry and deformed.
The latin word is distorquere