Distort vs Perturb - What's the difference?
distort | perturb |
To bring something out of shape.
(ergative) To become misshapen.
To give a false or misleading account of
(obsolete) distorted; misshapen
* Spenser
To disturb; to bother or unsettle.
(physics) To slightly modify the motion of an object.
(astronomy) To modify the motion of a body by exerting a gravitational force.
(mathematics) To modify slightly, such as an equation or value.
As verbs the difference between distort and perturb
is that distort is to bring something out of shape while perturb is to disturb; to bother or unsettle.As an adjective distort
is (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.distort
English
Verb
(en verb)- In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Derived terms
* distorterAdjective
(en adjective)- Her face was ugly and her mouth distort .
