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to cause something to be not straight or exact; to twist or distort: These last-minute changes have skewed the company's results. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Bending, twisting and curving. arch your back. ball up. bendy. bent. bowed. distorted. distortion. entwine. flexion. swirlingly. swoopy. tangled.
noun. : a deviation from a straight line : slant. Examples of skew in a Sentence. Verb They were accused of skewing the facts to fit their theory. He accused them of skewing the rules in their favor. Recent Examples on the Web. Verb.
to cause something to be not straight or exact; to twist or distort: These last-minute changes have skewed the company's results. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Bending, twisting and curving. arch your back. ball up. bendy. bent. bowed. distorted. distortion. entwine. flexion. swirlingly. swoopy. tangled.
verb. If something is skewed, it is changed or affected to some extent by a new or unusual factor, and so is not correct or normal. The arithmetic of nuclear running costs has been skewed by the fall in the cost of other fuels. [be VERB -ed] Today's election will skew the results in favor of the northern end of the county. [VERB noun]
In probability theory and statistics, skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real -valued random variable about its mean. The skewness value can be positive, zero, negative, or undefined.
Definition of skew verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adjective. having an oblique direction or position; slanting; sideways: The picture is square, but the angles of the trees give it a skew look. having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing. Mathematics. (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate.
skew. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English skew /skjuː/ verb [ transitive] 1 if something skews the results of a test etc, it affects them, making them incorrect All the people we questioned lived in the same area, which had the effect of skewing the figures. 2 to affect or influence someone’s ideas, actions, or judgment ...
To skew is to turn or place at an angle. When you build a house of cards, you must slightly angle, or skew each card, so structure will stand up. From the Middle English skewen ("swerve"), this verb was born to describe things in the physical world.
SKEW meaning: 1 : to change (something) so that it is not true or accurate; 2 : to make (something) favor a particular group of people in a way that is unfair usually used as (be) skewed usually + toward.
