Associations to the word «Skew»
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Wiktionary
SKEW, adjective. (mathematics) Neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines).
SKEW, verb. (transitive) To change or alter in a particular direction.
SKEW, verb. (transitive) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
SKEW, verb. (transitive) To throw or hurl obliquely.
SKEW, verb. (intransitive) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
SKEW, verb. (intransitive) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
SKEW, verb. (intransitive) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
SKEW, 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.
SKEW, adverb. Awry; obliquely; askew.
SKEW BRIDGE, noun. A bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering.
SKEW FIELD, noun. (algebra) (dated) A ring in which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse; division ring
SKEW SYMMETRIC, adjective. Alternative spelling of skew-symmetric
SKEW SYMMETRY, noun. Alternative spelling of skew-symmetry
SKEW WHIFF, adjective. Alternative spelling of skew-whiff
Dictionary definition
SKEW, verb. Turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed".
SKEW, adjective. Having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew".
Wise words
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