[skyoo] 
| 1. | to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course. |
| 2. | to look obliquely; squint. |
| 3. | to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely. |
| 4. | Slang. to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant: The television show is skewed to the young teenager. |
| 5. | to distort; depict unfairly. |
| 6. | having an oblique direction or position; slanting. |
| 7. | having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing. |
| 8. | Mathematics. (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate. |
| 9. | (of an arch, bridge, etc.) having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built. |
| 10. | Statistics. (of a distribution) having skewness. |
| 11. | an oblique movement, direction, or position. |
| 12. | Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely. |
skew (sky ) Pronunciation Key
A transformation of coordinates in which one coordinate is displaced in one direction in proportion to its distance from a coordinate plane or axis. A rectangle, for example, that undergoes skew is transformed into a parallelogram. Also called shear. |
