Distortion

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What Wikipedia says

In geometric optics, distortion is a deviation from rectilinear projection; a projection in which straight lines in a scene remain straight in an image.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Distortion (optics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Nicoguaro, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.