skew : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face
  

WordNet

• an oblique arch. See under Oblique.

Webster 1913

• . (Civil Engin.) (a) The course of masonry, the stone, or the iron plate, having an inclined face, which forms the abutment for the voussoirs of a segmental arch . (b) A plate, cap, or shoe, having an inclined face to receive the nut of a diagonal brace, rod, or the end of an inclined strut, in a truss or frame.

Webster 1913

• . See under Bridge, n.

Webster 1913

• noun any correlation in which the rates of change of the variables is not constant
  curvilinear correlation; nonlinear correlation.
  

WordNet

• (Geom.), a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. See Plane curve, under Curve.

Webster 1913

• (Mach.), toothed gearing, generally resembling bevel gearing, for connecting two shafts that are neither parallel nor intersecting, and in which the teeth slant across the faces of the gears.

Webster 1913

• (Geom.), a ruled surface such that in general two successive generating straight lines do not intersect; a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a skew surface.

Webster 1913

• (Alg.), a determinant in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite having eyes that look in different directions
  

WordNet

• adjective satellite turned or twisted toward one side
  lopsided; wonky; askew; cockeyed; awry.
  
  • a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton
  • his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff
• adverb turned or twisted to one side
  askew; awry.
  
  • rugs lying askew
  • with his necktie twisted awry

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