See distortion on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "noise",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "förvränging"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "effect used in music",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "distortion"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "effect used in music",
"word": "särö"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "effect used in music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "distorsion"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "effect used in music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verzerrung"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "paramórfosi",
"sense": "effect used in music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "παραμόρφωση"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "effect used in music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "distorção"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "distóršn",
"sense": "effect used in music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дисто́ршн"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "optics",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dystorsja"
}
],
"word": "distortion"
}
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