DEFORMATION • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Deformation

... it should be remembered that deformation of the head is practised by these people (vol. i., p. 48), and it is probable that the cephalic index is very rarely normal, consequently the head indices may be neglected. Three are flat behind and broad in the parietal ...

— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall

... until, after passing through the stage of absolute extinction when intervening between us and the sun, she re-appears as a morning star, and undergoes the same series of transformations in inverse order. The revelation was indeed so novel and unexpected, that when the slight deformation of the planet's shape was first detected by him, he did not venture to announce it in plain terms but veiled it, according to the prevailing fashion of the time, under a Latin ...

— Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) - Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky • Various