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Skew logo #10101) Apply spin 2) Apply spin to 3) Awry 4) Become awry 5) Bend out of shape 6) Bias 7) Create bias 8) Crooked 9) Depict biasedly 10) Depict improperly 11) Depict in a biased way 12) Depict unfairly 13) Depict with a bias 14) Depict with bias 15) Distort 16) Distort as data 17) Distort by twisting 18) Distort deviously
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Skew logo #10101) Bias 2) Distort 3) Incline 4) Skewed 5) Slant
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Skew logo #21000[antenna] Skew is a term used in antenna engineering. It is a technique to improve the horizontal radiation pattern of a high power transmitter station. In a high power VHF or UHF station, usually the antenna system is constructed to broadcast to four directions each separated 90° from each other. So the directivity of the antenna system r...
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Skew logo #21000[fax] In fax systems, skew is the angular deviation of the received frame from rectangularity caused by asynchronism between the scanner and the recorder. This is the same as the angle between the scanning line, or recording line, and the perpendicular to the paper path. Skew is expressed numerically as the tangent of the deviation angle. ....
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Skew logo #21002• (v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse. • (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place. • (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew. • (v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slight...
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skew logo #21142a defect in facsimile reproduction in which lines that should be at right angles to the scanning direction are inclined to it, owing to a difference between the scanning speeds at transmission and reception
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Skew logo #20510A measure of the inequality of propagation delay between two pairs in a multi-pair cable.
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Skew logo #20618Rotation of a bar code symbol about an axis parallel to the symbol’s length
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skew logo #20870 Describing the misalignment of a component or device to its proper mounting site.
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skew logo #209731. Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; chiefly used in technical phrases. Skew arch, an oblique arch. ... 2. <geometry> 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. ... 3. <mathematics> Skew symmetrical determi...
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Skew logo #21048During printing or scanning, the content of a page are almost never exactly vertical, which referred to as being skewed. De-skewing is a process where the computer detects and corrects the skew in an image file
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Skew logo #10444Rotation of a barcode symbol about an axis parallel to the symbol's length.
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Skew logo #20972Skew adjective Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases. Skew arch , an oblique arch. See under Oblique . -- Skew back . (Civil Engin.) (a) The course of masonry, the stone, or the iron plate, ha...
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Skew logo #20972Skew adverb [ Confer Dutch scheef . Danish ski...v , Swedish skef , Icelandic skeifr , German schief , also English shy , adjective & intransitive verb ] Awry; obliquely; askew.
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Skew logo #20972Skew noun (Architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
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Skew logo #20972Skew transitive verb [ See Skew , adverb ] 1. To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. 2. To throw or hurl obliquely.
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Skew logo #20972Skew intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Skewed ; present participle & verbal noun Skewing .] 1. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely. « Child, you must walk straight, without skewing
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Skew logo #21217In architecture a skew is a stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
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Skew logo #21217Skew is old slang for a cup or wooden dish.
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Skew logo #20948During printing or scanning, the content of a page are almost never exactly vertical, which referred to as being skewed. De-skewing is a process where the computer detects and corrects the skew in an image file.
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Skew logo #22189A bevel-faced stone, particularly at the eaves end of a gable; a kneeler.
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Skew logo #22646Out of square or in an oblique position.
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Skew logo #20687An expression of the so-called 'third moment'. A tendency for a distribution to lean to the right (or left, when negative), showing a fast dip from the central mean but having an extended tail. The skewness of data is usually measured through a coefficient of skewness which is zero for symmetric distributions such as the normal or uniform distribut...
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skew logo #20974skewed adjective having an oblique or slanting direction or position; `the picture was skew`
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Skew logo #21107The condition when two entities come together at an angle which is not 90 degrees or perpendicular to each other.
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