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skew verb

  /skju/ , /skjuː/
  • (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
 hypähtää, säpsähtää
  • (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
 kallistaa, vinouttaa, vääristää
  • (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
 katsoa kieroon
  • (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
 liikkua vinossa, liikkua vinosti
  • (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
 muotoilla vinoksi, tehdä vinoksi, vinouttaa
  • (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
 vinouttaa

skew adjective

  /skju/ , /skjuː/
  • (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
  • (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
  • (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
 vino

skew noun

  /skju/ , /skjuː/
  • An oblique or sideways movement.
 vino liike
  • A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
 vinouma
  • (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
 vääristymä

skewed adjective

  /skjuːd/
  • Twisted at an angle.
 vino
  • (statistics, of information) Biased, distorted
 vino, vinoutunut, vääristynyt

skewness noun

  • (statistics) A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as \scriptstyle\gamma_1 = \frac{\mu_3}{\sigma^3}, \! where \mu_3 is the third moment about the mean and \sigma is the standard deviation.
 vinous

skew noun

  /skju/ , /skjuː/
  • (architecture) 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.
 luiskattu kivi
skew polygon
avaruusmonikulmio
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