nonlinear distortion

1. 1.

   distortion that occurs when the output signal does not have a linear relation to the input signal

   Synonymsamplitude distortion

   Broaderdistortion

Questions about nonlinear distortion

What does nonlinear distortion mean?

nonlinear distortion means "distortion that occurs when the output signal does not have a linear relation to the input signal".

What is another word for nonlinear distortion?

Close synonyms include amplitude distortion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nonlinear distortion a common word?

nonlinear distortion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.