warping

English

Verb

warping

1. Present participle of warp.

Noun

warping (plural warpings)

1. An action or motion that warps or twists.
   • Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     Such inertia-less states stand in absolute contrast (and complementarity) to the positive disorders of Parkinsonism, with their intense inertia and resistance to change, their violent warpings of space and field […]

2. (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area