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| skewed | |
| 1. adj. Twisted at an angle. |  |
| 2. adj. Biased, distorted (pertaining to statistics or information). | |
| skew | |
| 1. adj. (mathematics) Neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines). | |
| 2. adj. Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; e.g. a skew arch. | |
| 3. v. To bias or distort in a particular direction. | |
| A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results. | |
| 4. v. To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | |
| 5. v. To throw or hurl obliquely. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To start aside; to shy, as a horse. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously. | |
| 9. n. A bias or distortion in a particular direction. | |
| 10. n. (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. | |
| 11. n. (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. | |
| 12. adv. Awry; obliquely; askew. | |
