noun
Meaning 1
The property of being skew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
skewness
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noun
Meaning 2
A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as scriptstyle γ1=(μ3)/(σ3),! where μ3 is the third moment about the mean and σ is the standard deviation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
an oblique or slanting asymmetry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lopsidedness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English skew Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English skewness From skew + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: наклон (naklon) — property of being skew
- Czech: šikmost — property of being skew
- Dutch: scheefte — property of being skew
- Hindi: विषमता (viṣamtā) — property of being skew
- Portuguese: distorção — property of being skew
- Slovak: šikmosť — property of being skew
- Slovak: náklon — property of being skew
- Slovak: sklon — property of being skew
- Slovak: skreslenosť — property of being skew
- Arabic: تَجَانُف (tajānuf) — measure of the asymmetry
- Bulgarian: асиметрия (asimetrija) — measure of the asymmetry
- Czech: šikmost — measure of the asymmetry
- Czech: koeficient šikmosti — measure of the asymmetry
- Dutch: scheefheid — measure of the asymmetry
- Finnish: vinous — measure of the asymmetry
- Hindi: विषमता (viṣamtā) — measure of the asymmetry
- Indonesian: kemenjuluran — measure of the asymmetry
- Indonesian: kepencongan — measure of the asymmetry
- Indonesian: kemencengan — measure of the asymmetry
- Malay: kepencongan — measure of the asymmetry
- Portuguese: obliquidade — measure of the asymmetry
- Portuguese: assimetria — measure of the asymmetry
- Spanish: asimetría — measure of the asymmetry
- Tagalog: pagkakiwal — measure of the asymmetry