To distort or cause to be at an angle; to present information in a biased or misleading way. In statistics and geometry, it refers to asymmetry or deviation from a straight line or normal distribution.
From Middle English 'skewen', possibly from Old French 'eschuer' meaning to avoid or shun. The mathematical sense developed in the 19th century, while the meaning of 'bias' or 'distort' emerged in the 20th century from the geometric concept of deviation.
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