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What does skew mean?

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Adjective
  1. (mathematics) Neither perpendicular nor parallel (usually said of two lines).
Verb
  1. (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
  2. (transitive) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  3. (transitive) To throw or hurl obliquely.
  4. (intransitive) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
  5. (intransitive) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
  6. (intransitive) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
Noun
  1. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
  2. (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.
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