skews: significado e definições

To turn or place at an angle: skew the cutting edge of a plane.

To give a bias to; distort: The use of a limited sample skewed the findings of the study.

To take an oblique course or direction.

To look obliquely or sideways.

To display a statistical tendency toward: a television program that skews toward teenagers.

Placed or turned to one side; asymmetric.

Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.

Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.

Mathematics Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space. Statistics Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.