WARPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warping mean? 

• WARPING (noun)
  The noun WARPING has 1 sense:

1. a moral or mental distortion

  Familiarity information: WARPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A moral or mental distortion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

warp; warping

Hypernyms ("warping" is a kind of...):

deformation; distortion (a change for the worse)

Derivation:

warp (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)

 Context examples 

The eight quasars and galaxies were aligned so precisely that the warping effect, called gravitational lensing, produced four distorted images of each quasar.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror.

(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)

Warping functions are generated and then globally optimized.

(Gel Warping Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)

First predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, the warping of space by the gravity of a massive foreground object can brighten and distort the images of far more distant background objects.

(NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy, NASA)

Thanks to Hubble's exquisite sharpness, the photo unveils the effect of space warping due to gravity.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)