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Definition: Skewed |
SkewedAdjective1. Having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "skewed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | On a horizontal angle, or in an oblique course or direction. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In telecommunication, the term skew has the following meanings:1. In parallel transmission, the difference in arrival time of bits transmitted at the same time.
2. For data recorded on multichannel magnetic tape, the difference between reading times of bits recorded in a single transverse line.
Note: Skew is usually interpreted to mean the difference in reading times between bits recorded on the tracks at the extremities, i.e., edges, of the tape.
3. In facsimile systems, the angular deviation of the received frame from rectangularity caused by asynchronism between the scanner and the recorder.
Note: Skew is expressed numerically as the tangent of the deviation angle.
4. In facsimile, the angle between the scanning line, or recording line, and the perpendicular to the paper path.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
- Example of +1 degree (counter-clockwise) skew in a facsimile image. The red line is perfectly horizontal.
For the meaning of skew in statistics, see Skewness.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skew."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In probability theory and statistics, skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable. Roughly speaking, a distribution has positive skew if the if the positive tail is longer and negative skew if the negative tail is longer.Skewness, the third standardized moment, is defined as μ3 / σ3, where μ3 is the third moment about the mean and σ is the standard deviation. The skewness of a random variable X is sometimes denoted Skew[X].
For a set of N values the skewness can be calculated as Σi(xi - μ)3 / Nσ3, where xi is the ith value and μ is the mean.
If Y is the sum of n independent random variables, all with the same distribution as X, then it can be shown that Skew[Y] = Skew[X] / √n.
Given samples from a population, the equation for population skewness above is a biased estimator of the population skewness. An unbiased estimator of skewness is
where σ is the sample standard deviation and μ is the sample mean.
See also: mean, variance, kurtosis.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skewness."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SKEWSY | English | Skewed exchange Spectroscopy | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: SkewedSynonym: skew (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inequality | Adjective: unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced; top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Skewed |
| Specialty definitions using "skewed": Bethe hole coupler ♦ COATER ♦ herringbone roller conveyor ♦ Proton/Neutron conversion ♦ skewed roller conveyor ♦ WEFT STRAIGHTENER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But when you're an overweight child, in a society that demands perfection, your sense of right and wrong will always be terribly skewed (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers) | |
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Business | By including such firms, the global benchmarks can be overly skewed. (references) | |
This skewed pattern of marketing efforts seems to apply to retailers as much as to vendors. (references) | ||
This specific sale skewed the Dutch crane market share in 1999 to 18.96%, Japan 11.5% and U.S. 11.6% respectively. (references) | ||
Economic History | Burma | U.S.-Burma trade is growing, but is heavily skewed in favor of Burma. (references) |
Panama | The majority of income is skewed to a small, consumer goods oriented economic class. (references) | |
Gabon | On the other hand, a skewed income distribution and poor social indicators are evident. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | These skewed statistics reflect both the underreporting of female births so that parents can keep trying to conceive a boy, and the abuse of sonograms leading to the termination of pregnancies based on the sex of the fetus. (references) |
Political Economy | Botswana | Rural poverty remains a serious problem, as does a widely skewed income distribution. (references) |
Panama | Poverty persists and income distribution remains extremely skewed with large disparities between rich and poor. (references) | |
Trade | Kenya | The distribution of assistance in the top five sectors is highly skewed towards the sectors that contribute to economic development. (references) |
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| "Skewed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "Skewed" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 53.33% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 37.33% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 9.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "skewed": curve skewed to the left ♦ curve skewed to the right ♦ negatively skewed ♦ positively skewed ♦ skewed aileron ♦ skewed wing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
skewed | 10 |
distribution skewed | 6 |
halo.net skewed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "skewed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 歪曲 (Skewing). (various references) | |
Danish | skråstillet vinge (skewed wing), skråhængslet balanceklap (skewed aileron), venstreskæv fordeling (negatively skewed), højreskæv fordeling (positively skewed). (various references) | |
Dutch | scheve vleugel (skewed wing), rolroer met schuine as (skewed aileron), met een positieve scheefheid (positively skewed), met een negatieve scheefheid (negatively skewed). (various references) | |
Finnish | vino siiveke (skewed aileron), vino siipi (skewed wing), vasemmalle vino (negatively skewed), positiivisesti vino (positively skewed), oikealle vino (positively skewed), negatiivisesti vino (negatively skewed). (various references) | |
French | soudure clin oblique (skewed end fillet weld), positivement asymétrique (positively skewed), négativement asymétrique (negatively skewed), distribution asymétrique (skewed distribution), courbe asymétrie positive (curve skewed to the right, positive skewness curve), courbe asymétrie négative (curve skewed to the left, nagative skewness curve), aileron oblique (skewed aileron), aile montée en biais (skewed wing). (various references) | |
German | verdrehte (contorted, distorted, misrepresented, perverted). (various references) | |
Greek | εξωραφή συγκολλήσεως λοξών άκρων (angle fillet weld, incline fillet weld, skewed end fillet weld), λοξό πηδάλιο κλίσης (skewed aileron), λοξή κατανομή (skewed distribution), λοξή πτέρυγα (skewed wing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elferdült (out of true, perverse, twisted), egyoldalas, aszimmetrikus (asymmetric, asymmetrical, lopsided, skew). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menceng (slanted). (various references) | |
Italian | distribuzione asimmetrica (asymmetrical distribution, skewed distribution), distorto a sinistra (negatively skewed), distorto a destra (positively skewed), alettone ritorto (skewed aileron), ala asimmetrica (skewed wing). (various references) | |
Korean | 비뚤어지". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ewedskay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | soldadura de ângulo oblíqua (angle fillet weld, incline fillet weld, skewed end fillet weld), asa assimétrica (skewed wing), aileron enviesado (skewed aileron). (various references) | |
Russian | перекашивать перекошенный. (various references) | |
Spanish | distribución asimétrica (asymmetrical distribution, skewed distribution), asimétrica positiva (positively skewed), asimétrica negativa (negatively skewed), alerón oblicuo (skewed aileron), ala oblicua (skewed wing). (various references) | |
Turkish | yamuk (irregular, skew, trapezium, trapezoid, warped), eğri (aslant, aslope, awry, bent, cambered, cockeyed, crooked, curve, graph, oblique, out of the straight, sinuous, skew, slanting, sloping, slouching, slouchy, tortuous, trajectory, untrue, warped, wry), eğilmiş (decumbent, lop-sided, sprung), eğik (bevel, drooping, droopy, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, slanting, sloping, threshold). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Skewed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: askewed, kew-ee, scewed, Schwed, Schwendi, sekwel, skewe, skwed, snewed, Sukowa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skewed" (pronounced skyuw"d) |
| 4 | -k y uw" d | cued. |
| 3 | -y uw" d | debuted, feud, gude, hued, imbued, reviewed, spewed, viewed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-k-s-w" | |
-1 letter: dekes, sewed, skeed, swede, weeds, weeks. | |
-2 letters: dees, deke, desk, dews, eked, ekes, ewes, seed, seek, skee, skew, weds, weed, week, wees. | |
-3 letters: dee, dew, eds, eke, ewe, see, sew, wed, wee. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, es, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-k-s-w" | |
+2 letters: midweeks, silkweed, skewered, weakside, weekdays, weekends. | |
+3 letters: duckweeds, hawkweeds, knapweeds, knotweeds, milkweeds, pokeweeds, rockweeds, silkweeds, snakeweed, stickweed, stinkweed, weaksides, whiskered, wickedest. | |
+4 letters: belowdecks, chickweeds, knowledges, snakeweeds, stickweeds, stinkweeds, weekenders, wickedness, wideawakes. | |
+5 letters: bewhiskered, corkscrewed, needleworks, peckerwoods, shipwrecked, sleepwalked, spacewalked, wisecracked, woodpeckers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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