Definitions from Wiktionary (skew)
▸ verb: (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
▸ verb: (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
▸ verb: (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
▸ adjective: (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
▸ adjective: (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
▸ adjective: (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
▸ adverb: (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
▸ noun: Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
▸ noun: An oblique or sideways movement.
▸ noun: A squint or sidelong glance.
▸ noun: A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
▸ noun: A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
▸ noun: A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
▸ noun: (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
▸ noun: (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
▸ noun: (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
▸ noun: (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
▸ noun: (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
▸ Also see skew
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▸ verb: (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
▸ verb: (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
▸ verb: (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
▸ adjective: (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
▸ adjective: (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
▸ adjective: (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
▸ adverb: (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.
▸ noun: Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
▸ noun: An oblique or sideways movement.
▸ noun: A squint or sidelong glance.
▸ noun: A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
▸ noun: A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
▸ noun: A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
▸ noun: (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
▸ noun: (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
▸ noun: (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
▸ noun: (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
▸ noun: (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
▸ Also see skew
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large,
positive,
different,
demographic,
small,
significant,
extreme,
tolerable,
regional,
local,
systematic
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