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skewed::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | skew |
Examples of skewed
skewed
It hardly seems like the power dynamic is skewed toward the passenger right now.
From the time.com
Some of the numbers are skewed by familiarity with what the offense was running.
From the stltoday.com
Earlier accounts have almost always been skewed to the Sunni version of history.
From the online.wsj.com
He said the number is skewed because USC is giving away so many turnover scores.
From the dailynews.com
There's a lot of things that are skewed when there's talk on TV and sound bites.
From the ocregister.com
Both quarterbacks'passing numbers were skewed by several drops by the receivers.
From the kentucky.com
The bad choices begin immediately, though, with the film's skewed moral compass.
From the inrich.com
Some of the white meat skewed dry, but the bits nearest the skin were very good.
From the omaha.com
It's such a skewed, quirky misfire that I found its idiocies oddly entertaining.
From the sacbee.com
- Having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew"
- Turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed"
- (skewness) lopsidedness: an oblique or slanting asymmetry
- Skew is a term used in antenna engineering. It is a technique to improve the horizontal radiation pattern of a high power transmitter station.
- In fax systems, skew is the angular deviation of the received frame from rectangularity caused by asynchronism between the scanner and the recorder. This is the same as the angle between the scanning line, or recording line, and the perpendicular to the paper path.
- (Skewness) In probability theory and statistics, skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. The skewness value can be positive or negative, or even undefined. ...
- To change or alter in a particular direction; Neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines)
- (skewed) Twisted at an angle; Biased, distorted (pertaining to statistics or information)
- (Skewed) A weighted distribution that is not symmetrical which results in having one tail longer than the other on a frequency curve. The skew is titled after the longest tail, for example, if the right side had the longest tail, it would be called skewed right.
