Warped surface

(Geom.)

a surface generated by a straight line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions shall be in the same plane.

- Davies & Peck.

See also: Warp

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Thus borrowable by the same characters who equally calmly borrowed pediments and capitals from history and who nowadays find themselves lifting little bits of warped surface from the digital world--all to be draped around the predictable shed-and-corridor.

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The warped surfaces of the interior walls mask the blue-collar beams and columns anonymously putting in their 40 hours.