Word Finder - skew

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Something that has an oblique or slanted position.

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An oblique or sideways movement.

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A bias or distortion in a particular direction.

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A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.

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A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

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To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

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To bias or distort in a particular direction.

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A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.

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To hurl or throw.

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To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.

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To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.

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To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

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Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.

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a skew arch

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Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

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Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

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Askew, obliquely; awry.

They so skew the meaning of the biblical text that it comes out saying something entirely different than what was intended by the author.

The choice of location will skew the results to what you want.

Don't use metal containers, as these may skew the test results.

In the latter case, the positive skew of the distribution is particularly noticeable 11.

Real estate companies that provide free calculators may skew the information to get you to purchase a home.

Having too much liquid or water before testing may skew results, especially if hormone levels are not especially high.

Day one of the cycle is the first day of regular menstrual blood loss, although some women calculate from the first 'spot' of blood, this is not a good idea as it can skew you cycle calculations by several days.

And skew the scientific results?

The negative skew is also important & ties in with market sentiment & RICs surveys over the last quarter.

A blade that is radially symmetrical is said to have zero skew.

Coma is not accurately represented in films, something that could skew public perceptions and affect real life decisions, a new study claims.

Investors will not be allowed to skew the priorities of a CIC away from its central pursuit of the community interest.

In these plots the deviation of the skew gaussian from the mlla predictions at the 1% level can be seen.

A skew railroad bridge crosses the Tinsley Locks below the third lock.

Firstly, the skew table is much more symmetric.

Robust health and beauty can also skew birth order expectations.

Twins and other birth multiples also skew birth order predictions.

There is no skew to a particular ethnicity; it's a very ethnically diverse group.

If you skew the macronutrient balance to favor huge amounts of protein, there will be less room in your diet for other necessary foods.

There are dozens of ways to skew Internet metrics.

Peaucellier's discovery of the straight line link motion associated with his name, and he also invented the skew pentagraph.

Successive half-turns about two skew axes a, b are equivalent to a twist about a screw whose axis is the common perpendicular to a, b, the translation being double the shortest distance, and the angle of rotation being twice the acute angle between a, b, in the direction from a to b.

By its aid, for example, the whole of the properties a elliptical arches, whether square or skew, whether level or sloping in their span, are at once deduced by projection from those of symmetrical circular arches, and the properties of ellipsoidal and ellipticconoidal domes from those of hemispherical and circular-conoidal domes; and the figures of arches fitted to resist the thrust of earth, which is less horizontally than vertically in a certain given ratio, can be deduced by a projection from those of arches fitted to resist the thrust of a liquid, which is of equal intensity, horizontally and vertically.

It is a leading point in the theory that a curve in space cannot in general be represented by means of two equations U= o, V = o; the two equations represent surfaces, intersecting in a curve; but there are curves which are not the complete intersection of any two surfaces; thus we have the cubic in space, or skew cubic, which is the residual intersection of two quadric surfaces which have a line in common; the equations U= o, V= o of the two quadric surfaces represent the cubic curve, not by itself, but together with the line.

The analysis can even be extended to remotely identify the physical machine being used, through extracting clock skew.

A skew symmetric determinant has a,.

A skew determinant is one which is skew symmetric in all respects,.

We may therefore form an orthogonal transformation in association with every skew determinant which has its leading diagonal elements unity, for the Zn(n-I) quantities b are clearly arbitrary.

When a skew symmetric determinant is of even degree it is a perfect square.