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Something that has an oblique or slanted position.

An oblique or sideways movement.

A bias or distortion in a particular direction.

A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.

To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

To bias or distort in a particular direction.

Example: A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.

To hurl or throw.

To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.

Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.

Example: a skew arch

Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

Askew, obliquely; awry.

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; a skew-corbel.

The coping of a gable.

One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.