1937, W. C. Warrell, “Machine Clothing”, inThe Paper-maker and British Paper Trade Journal, volume XCIV, annual number, London:[s.n.],→ISSN,→OCLC,page 6:
When making this joint it is important to see that the eccentric or crank is at dead-centre; if it is at the end or limit of its stroke, the rubber isskewed the full length of same; if it is at the centre, the skewing, which is the cause of wear, is halved.
2009, Uday A. Bakshi, Mayuresh V. Bakshi, “Three Phase Induction Motors”, inElectrical Machines, Pune, Maharashtra: Technical Publications Pune,→ISBN,page6-70:
Thus asynchronous torques cannot be avoided but can be reduced by proper choice of coil span and byskewing the stator or rotor slots.
Skewing an object, as we mention at the start of this section, involves distorting the angles of the object. For example, you can create a parallelogram byskewing a square, or you can create shadow effects with skewed text (which we show you later in this chapter).
2010, Ellen Finkelstein, Gurdy Leete, Mary Leete, “You are the Object Editor”, inFlash Professional CS5 & Flash Catalyst CS5, Hoboken, M.J.:Wiley Publishing,→ISBN, part II (1,000 Pictures and 1,000 Words),page124:
The easiest way toskew objects is to use the Free Transform tool. [...] Use the left box toskew horizontally. Toskew clockwise, click the current value and then either type a value between 1 and 89 or drag up. Toskew counterclockwise, click the current value and then either type a value between −1 and −89 or drag down. Then press Enter or Return.
2006, Andrew Stark, “Between the Normal and the Ideal”, inThe Limits of Medicine: Cure or Enhancement, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page75:
We have looked at the obese and anorexic communities, whose conditions fall on a curveskewed towards overweight for determining the social norm of body weight and who face a golden-mean social ideal of body weight.
Accordingly, public policy can beskewed towards certain interest groups which have the best organization and most resources; it can beskewed towards certain politically powerful state agencies; and it can beskewed by intense rivalries between different sectors of government itself.
2023 May 14, Panarat Thepgumpanat, Panu Wongcha-um, “Thailand's opposition opens up big election lead as army parties slide”, inReuters[1]:
because of parliamentary rules written by the military after the 2014 coup that areskewed in its favour.
2023 June 12, Tom Dart, “US culture wars come to baseball as MLB celebrates Pride month”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:
Trump urged his followers to “boycott baseball” – though, much like his core support, the sport’s fanbaseskews older, male and white.
Child, (ſays theMother) You muſt Uſe your ſelf to Walk Streight, withoutSkewing, and Shailing ſo Every Step you ſet: PrayMother (ſays theYoung Crab) do but ſet the Example your ſelf, and I'll follow ye.
[T]he plaintiff's surveyor says, his line struck the house ten inches in the rear and fifteen inches in the front; and farther that the "house is a littleskewing and is not set exactly square."
The upper sign corresponds to the case represented in the figure in which the archskews to the right, and the lower one to the case in which itskews to the left.
1991, Kathleen Kirkwood[pseudonym; Anita Gordon], chapter21, inThe Valiant Heart, New York, N.Y.:Jove Books,→ISBN; revised edition,[s.l.]: Anita Gordon,2013,→ISBN:
The horses capered. One tore its reins from her hands, burning a trail across her palms. She clung to the other as it pulled against the restraint. Frantically, Brienne moved to its side, pitching the reins over the beast's head, and jammed her foot into the stirrup. The horseskewed, drawing her along on one foot.
[C]an thisdurt draw us / To ſuch a ſtupid tameneſſe, that our ſervice / Neglected, and look'd lamely on, andskewd at / With a few honourable words, and this, is righted?
1827,John Clare, “The Memory of Love; a Tale”, inThe Shepherd’s Calendar;[…], London:[…][F]or John Taylor,[…], by James Duncan,[…],→OCLC,page173:
The cows stood round her in a wondering way, / And kept the stranger with her fears at bay; / They tost their heads and snuff'd the morning gales, /Skewing at her: [...]
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1698,Jo[hn] Keill, “Of the Perpendicular Position of the Axis of the Earth to the Plane of the Ecliptick”, inAn Examination of Dr.Burnet’s Theory of the Earth.[…], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at theTheater,→OCLC,page78:
[O]ur earth which makes one in that airy fleet when it eſcaped ſo narrowly being ſhipwrackt in the great Deluge, was however ſo broken and diſordered that it loſt its equal poiſe and thereupon the centre of its gravity changing, one Pole became more inclined towards the Sun and the other more removed from it, in whichſkew poſture it hath ſtood ever ſince.
And this is done by cauſing the Threads of the Screw C D to take hold of the oblique orſkew Teeth of the Wheel asc, and by continually turning the Wheel round to draw up a great Weight as W by means of the Rope which is wound on the Axis E F.
She pretended to faint, bow'd to the duke and ducheſs, and alſo to the two kings; but caſting aſkew look upon Don Quixote, heaven forgive that hard-hearted lovely knight, ſaid ſhe, whoſe barbarity has made me an inhabitant of the other world for ought I know a thouſand years.
1834, “Description of the Line of Railroad from the Entrance Station, Westland-Row, to Kingstown”, inThirteen Views of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, Dublin:P[hilip] Dixon Hardy,[…],→OCLC,page13:
Over Barrow-street the arch is built with what is technically calledknee'd orelbow quoins; the stones being cut so as to form an oblique orskew bed on the face of the ring, and to return to a square bed within: [...]
[1838], Arthur Freeling,The London and Birmingham Railway Companion,[…], London: Whittaker and Company,→OCLC,page178:
Here is another of those magnificentskew bridges, sprung from the sides of the excavation. Looking at it with the face towards the tunnel, when you are about 200 yards distant, the effect is very singular, as it appears to be a portion of the entrance thereto.
Their [the graves'] enclosure walls, within which several burials were found, were at right angles to the great wall of the town, and cut through the other graves (mastabas) which, though parallel to one another, wereskew to the town walls.
The last crossing, immediately short ofKeswick station, is an inverted bowstring girder bridge with askew span of 120ft.
1992, Marianne Dieterich, Thomas Brandt, “Subjective Visual Vertical and Eye-head Coordination (Roll) with Brain Stem Lesions”, inAlain Berthoz, Werner Graf, Pierre Paul Vidal, editors,The Head-neck Sensory Motor System, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page640:
Ocular tilt reaction [...]—the triad of head tilt in roll,skew deviation of the eyes, and cyclorotation of the eyes towards the head tilt—may indicate a lesion induced deviation of the primary position of the vertical VOR [vestibulo-ocular reflex] in either peripheral otolithic or central vestibular brain stem disorders. [...]Skew deviation, a vertical divergence of the eyes, theoretically can be due to: (1) hypertropia of one eye while the other eye maintains a normal position; [...]
Through the given point there are two lines one of which is parallel to one of the givenskew lines, while the other is parallel to the other of the givenskew lines. These two "parallels" determine a plane, and the only plane, that is parallel to both the givenskew lines.
2014, Alex Ely Kossovsky, “Saville Regression Measure”, inBenford’s Law: Theory, the General Law of Relative Quantities, and Forensic Fraud Detection Applications, Singapore:World Scientific Publishing,→ISBN, section 3 (Data Compliance Tests),page137:
A slope value over 1 indicates that digits areskewer than the Benford condition in favor of low ones. A slope value less than 1 indicates that digits are less skewed as compared with the Benford condition.
2016, Bettina Hüttenrauch, “Analysis of Data Augmentation KPIs”, inTargeting Using Augmented Data in Database Marketing: Decision Factors for Evaluating External Sources, Wiesbaden:Springer Gabler,→DOI,→ISBN, section 6.4.3 (Model Lift (Uniform)),page199:
Theskewest possible distribution is that in which every but one target value has only one element and the other target value has all the other elements.
1832, James Scott Walker, “The Broad-green Embankment”, inAn Accurate Description of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,[…], 3rd edition, Liverpool: J. F. Cannell, printer,[…],→OCLC,page29:
We now come to Whiston village and bridge, (7½ miles) and after passing under a wooden bridge, dash under one of 47 feet span, of stone and brick, with a remarkableskew.
Thus one of the manyskews in the Harleian Catalogue was set straight. (Don't let any one abuse the first Cataloguer of a Collection forskews. For all Catalogues (as for all Indexes) one ought to be grateful: for those without mistakes, most grateful.)
1876,William John Macquorn Rankine, E. F. Bamber, “Of Masonry”, inA Manual of Civil Engineering, 11th edition, London: Charles Griffin and Company,[…],→OCLC, part II (Of Materials and Structures), section VIII (Of Stone and Brick Arches), paragraph 295 (Skew Arches),page429:
Theangle ofskew, orobliquity, is the angle which the axis of the archway, A A, makes with a perpendicular to the face of the arch, B C A B. The span of the archway, "on the square," as it is called (that is, the perpendicular distance between the abutments), is less than the spanon theskew, or parallel to the face of the arch, in the ratio of the cosine of the obliquity to unity. It is the spanon theskew which is equal to that of the corresponding symmetrical arch.
It is apparent that by shifting the position of the hitching link the angle ofskew may be increased or diminished as the conditions require. When dragging immediately over ruts or down the center of the road after the sides have been dragged, it is usually preferable to have the hitching link at the center of the chain and to run the drag withoutskew.
1989, Ivan Andonovic, Deepak Uttamchandani, editors,Principles of Modern Optical Systems, volume 1, Norwood, Mass.:Artech House,→ISBN, page501:
One application for which an optical filter can play an important role is that of a wideband connection with low timeskew. [...] One signal, the clock, needs to be distributed to all parts of a digital circuit to synchronize its action. The necessarily long path results in the danger of the clock signal arriving at the wrong time (clockskew), limiting the maximum frequency at which the circuit may be clocked.
2004, Sachin Sapatnekar, “Clocking and Clock Skew Optimization”, inTiming, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.:Kluwer Academic Publishers,→ISBN, section 9.8 (Conclusion),page205:
Until recently, there has been a great reluctance to alter the clock network and attempt a nonzero-skew solution. However, recently, an increasing number of designers have been willing to utilizeskews for performance enhancement.
2012, James A. Rosenthal, “Shape of Distribution”, inStatistics and Data Interpretation for Social Work, New York, N.Y.:Springer Publishing Company,→ISBN, section 5.3.1 (Characteristics),page53:
Skewness (skew) is the degree to which a distribution's shape departs from symmetry [...]. The greater the departure, the greater theskew. Symmetric distributions have noskew. For instance, the normal distribution is symmetric and is thus not a skewed distribution.
2013, Larry Shover, “Volatility Skew: Smile or Smirk?”, inTrading Options in Turbulent Markets: Master Uncertainty through Active Volatility Management, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Bloomberg Press,John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,page47:
Skew is the contour, or the unevenness, in a distribution, the dent in the bell curve. A negativeskew suggests that the left half of the normal distribution (the left side of the mean) is twisted in such a way that the prospect of achieving negative returns is superior to that of achieving large positive returns. [...] When dealing withskew, traders strive to resolve how frequently in the trading time horizon they will obtain negative returns rather than positive returns. Askew demonstrates the relationship between the movement of an underlying asset and its volatility.
A skew(sense 1) at thefoot of theslope of agable is indicated by the letter “A” in this drawing.[n 1]
Thestonesplaced over theend of a gable(left, in an inverted V-shape), orforming thecoping of a gable(right) were formerly also called skews(sense 3).[n 2] Especially inScotland, the entire coping is also known as a skew(sense 2).
1838, James Morrison, “Appendix II. Duodecimals. Or Cross Multiplication.”, inA Concise System of Commercial Arithmetic, Adapted to Modern Practice:[…], new edition, London:Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans,[…],→OCLC,page210:
How many yards of roofing and serking, in a Roof 45 feet, 8 in. long, fromskew toskew; and 21 feet, 8 in. deep, from ridge to easing, including 9 inches for wall plates or double eave?
[1845,[John Henry Parker], “Skew, Skew-table”, inA Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, 4th edition, volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker; London: David Bogue,→OCLC,page340:
Skew, Skew-table: the termskew is still used in the north for a stone built into the bottom of a gable or other similar situation to support the coping above [...]]
Gable Copings orSkews are of various forms of section, the most common varieties being the parallel sided, Fig. 654; the weathered, or feather-edged, Fig. 655; and the saddle-backed, Fig. 656. [...] Theskews at the eaves terminate in what is termed a club-skew or skew-corbel. This admits of an infinite variety of forms, according to the style of the building, but the object is the same in all—namely, to afford a support and abutment to theskew.
Thearchitecture of the steadings given in Plates I. to IX. is of the simplest description—plain rubble-work, with broached ashlar corners, rebates, lintels, andskews, and the roofs extending in stretches, and terminating in gables, without points to be affected by the weather. [...] A somewhat more ornamental style is given in Plate XV. of the farm-steading at Coleshill, in Berkshire, the corners and rebates being in raised work, and theskews of the gables ridged and pinnacled.
1533,John Bayley, “Appendix to Part I. [The Following is Extracted from a Survey Made of the Tower, in Order to a General Repair of Its Different Buildings, in the Twenty-third Year of KingHenry the Eighth, Preserved in the Chapter-house at Westminster.]”, inThe History and Antiquities of the Tower of London,[…] In Two Parts, part I, London:T[homas] Cadell,[…], published1821,→OCLC,pages xxviii and xxix:
[page xxviii] Here ensuithe an abstracte of the freemasons worke. [...] It'm, the walle new made on the west syde of the watergate [...] abottres made wt hardeasheler of Kent, l. foot, and in Cane asheler askew vj. foot, [...] [page xxix] It'm, at theJuell Hows door, iij. spaces covered wtskew and crest, amontying xxxvj. fote of stone.
1850,[John Henry Parker], “Skew and crest”, inA Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, 5th edition, volume I (Text), Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker; London: David Bogue,[…],→OCLC,page429:
Skew and crest: this phrase, which occurs in the specifications for the repairs at the Tower of London, (23 H. VIII.,) plainly describes the common coping of a wall which consists of a sloping orskew surface surmounted by a roll moulding by way ofcrest; sometimes there are twoskews, separated by a set-off.
^From[John Henry Parker] (1845) “Skew, Skew-table”, inA Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, 4th enlarged edition, volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker; London: David Bogue,→OCLC,page340.
^[John Henry Parker] (1850) “Skew, Skew-table, Scuwe, Scwe”, inA Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, 5th enlarged edition, volume I (Text), Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker; London: David Bogue,→OCLC,page429.
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