skew

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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.”

2. fiil To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.

   “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.”

3. fiil To bias or distort in a particular direction.

   “A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.”

4. fiil To hurl or throw.
5. fiil To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.

   “Child, (ſays the Mother) You muſt Uſe your ſelf to Walk Streight, without Skewing, and Shailing ſo Every Step you ſet: Pray Mother (ſays the Young Crab) do but ſet the Example your ſelf, and I'll follow ye.”

6. fiil To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
7. fiil To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

   “[C]an this durt draw us / To ſuch a ſtupid tameneſſe, that our ſervice / Neglected, and look'd lamely on, and skewd at / With a few honourable words, and this, is righted?”

8. sıfat Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.

   “a skew arch”

9. sıfat 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.”

10. sıfat Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

    “A slope value over 1 indicates that digits are skewer than the Benford condition in favor of low ones. A slope value less than 1 indicates that digits are less skewed as compared with the Benford condition.”

11. zarf Askew, obliquely; awry.

    “The walls are all united at one end into one head wall; which runs 14′ skew of the Pyramid on the W.; [...]”

12. isim Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
13. isim An oblique or sideways movement.
14. isim A squint or sidelong glance.
15. isim A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
16. isim A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
17. isim A bias or distortion in a particular direction.

    “We now come to Whiston village and bridge, (7½ miles) and after passing under a wooden bridge, dash under one of 47 feet span, of stone and brick, with a remarkable skew.”

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

    “Until recently, there has been a great reluctance to alter the clock network and attempt a nonzero-skew solution. However, recently, an increasing number of designers have been willing to utilize skews for performance enhancement.”

19. isim A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

    “Skewness (skew) is the degree to which a distribution's shape departs from symmetry [...]. The greater the departure, the greater the skew. Symmetric distributions have no skew. For instance, the normal distribution is symmetric and is thus not a skewed distribution.”

20. isim 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.

    “How many yards of roofing and serking, in a Roof 45 feet, 8 in. long, from skew to skew; and 21 feet, 8 in. deep, from ridge to easing, including 9 inches for wall plates or double eave?”

21. isim The coping of a gable.
22. isim One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
23. isim A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.

    “I am in a regular Cornish skew as to the future, like that thou and I were favoured with when we astonished the natives at Sidmouth - can't see an inch before me.”