1. An acute infectious disease of the small intestine, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, muscle cramps, severe dehydration, and depletion of electrolytes. Also called Asiatic cholera.
Distortion. Distortion is the alteration of the original shape of something, such as an object, image, sound or waveform. Distortion is usually unwanted, and so engineers strive to eliminate distortion, or minimize it.
A hyperbole is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to show emphasis or to invoke a feeling or to create a visual image.For example, letâs look at the following sentence. She is as big as a whale.Unlike a metaphor that compares one thing with another, a hyperbole does not compare two things.Rather, it exaggerates a condition, emotion or size by trying to create a feeling and/or visual image for the hearer or reader to be able to understand what the speaker or writer is trying to relay.nlike a metaphor that compares one thing with another, a hyperbole does not compare two things. Rather, it exaggerates a condition, emotion or size by trying to create a feeling and/or visual image for the hearer or reader to be able to understand what the speaker or writer is trying to relay.