verb

• (transitive) 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."
• (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  "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."
• (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
  "A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results."
• (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.

adj

• (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
  "a skew arch"
• (not comparable, geometry) 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."
• (comparable, statistics) 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."

adv

• (rare) 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.; [...]"

noun

• (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.
  "One application for which an optical filter can play an important role is that of a wideband connection with low time skew. [...] One signal, the clock, needs to be distributed to all parts of a digital circuit to synchronize its action. The necessarily long path results in the danger of the clock signal arriving at the wrong time (clock skew), limiting the maximum frequency at which the circuit may be clocked."
• (statistics) 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."