Dictionary entry overview: What does prodigy mean? â¢ PRODIGY (noun) The noun PRODIGY has 3 senses: 1. an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration 2. a sign of something about to happen 3. an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality Familiarity information: PRODIGY used as a noun is uncommon.
An architectural distortion is a somewhat vague phrase used by radiologists, when the mammogram shows a region where the breasts normal appearance, looks like an abnormal arrangement of tissue strands, often a radial or perhaps a somewhat random pattern, but without any associated mass as the apparent cause of this distortion.
Distortion is usually unwanted, and in practice there are many methods employed to minimize it. The term is often used for the observation or impression as well, as in a distorted view of the world. In some fields, distortion may be desirable.