The act of making something skewed; an alteration in a particular direction.

present participle of skew

plural of skewing

(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. / (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.

(rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.

(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; a skew-corbel.

Something that has an oblique or slanted position. / An oblique or sideways movement. / A squint or sidelong glance.

(not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew. / (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

Twisted at an angle. / (statistics, of information) Biased, distorted

simple past tense and past participle of skew