How to pronounce“skew”in English
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Definitions of “skew”
To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
“When making this joint it is important to see that the eccentric or crank is at dead-centre; if it is at the end or limit of its stroke, the rubber is skewed the full length of same; if it is at the centre, the skewing, which is the cause of wear, is halved.”
To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
“We have looked at the obese and anorexic communities, whose conditions fall on a curve skewed towards overweight for determining the social norm of body weight and who face a golden-mean social ideal of body weight.”
Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
“a skew arch”
Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
“Through the given point there are two lines one of which is parallel to one of the given skew lines, while the other is parallel to the other of the given skew lines. These two "parallels" determine a plane, and the only plane, that is parallel to both the given skew lines.”
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