Term: distortion: 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)
Candidate hypernym: acoustic phenomenon: a physical phenomenon associated with the production or transmission of sound → 1
Candidate hypernym: volume: the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object → 0
Candidate hypernym: product-moment correlation coefficient: the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between variables that are linearly related → 0
Candidate hypernym: male: a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies → 0
Candidate hypernym: cassia bark: aromatic bark of the cassia-bark tree; less desirable as a spice than Ceylon cinnamon bark → 0
Candidate hypernym: khoikhoin: any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa → 0
Candidate hypernym: quarter tone: half of a semitone → 0
Candidate hypernym: percolation: the act of making coffee in a percolator → 0
Candidate hypernym: cephaloglycin: antibiotic related to cephalosporin but no longer in common use → 0
Candidate hypernym: white line: a white stripe in the middle of a road to mark traffic lanes → 0
Candidate hypernym: choice: the person or thing chosen or selected → 0