
In some situations, however, distortion may be desirable.

In communications and electronics it means the alteration of the waveform of an information-bearing signal, such as an audio signal representing sound or a video signal representing images, in an electronic device or communication channel.ĭistortion is usually unwanted, and so engineers strive to eliminate or minimize it.

For other uses, see Distort (disambiguation).ĭistortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of something.
