This distortion creates a spatial variation in the intensity of the light, which can be visualised directly with a shadowgraph system.

The term "Alma Problem" has been used to refer to the difficulties that Alma's distortions have created for subsequent historians.

From this point, the distortions create the illusion that the gardens are much longer than they actually are.

For instance, when notes are played forcefully, the sound becomes less sweet, as nonlinear distortion creates a characteristic "growling" or "snarling", called "bark" by pianists.

Mr. Miller explained by pointing to the Mercator map projections of the 16th century where distortions in proportions create navigational accuracy of another kind.

The distortion created by cutting the casing did not impair the rocket's function much, not when compared to such precise forgings as turbine blades or pump components.

If the sinewave is run through a stateless nonlinear circuit (transcribing function), the resulting distortion creates harmonics.

Repeated rejection, co-optation and distortion of ideas by one's player-superiors create a weight under which even the brightest and most determined civil servant begins to bow.

Electromagnetic distortion creates flashes of staggeringly complex energy patterns, invisible to human eyes- but not to him.

His most conspicuous focus was on improving education after what he denounced as the distortions created by the Byrd organization's "massive resistance" to integration.