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.
Illusions of geometry Arguably, geometric distortion is not a true distortion at all since it is not caused by a defect in the image-projection. Rather it's caused by the psychometry of viewing from a geometrically improper position, so it is more accurately classed as an optical illusion.