Any convex body or surface.
A playing card made convex for use in cheating.
A small convex mirror used to cheat by observing other players' cards.
arranged such that for any two points in the set, a straight line between the two points is contained within the set.
Curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl, circle, or sphere.
having no internal angles greater than 180 degrees.
having an epigraph that is a convex set.
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
A squint or sidelong glance.
A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
The coping of a gable.
A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
An oblique or sideways movement.
A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
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.
A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
Askew, obliquely; awry.
Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
To bias or distort in a particular direction.
To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
To hurl or throw.
To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.