The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.
A transformation; change of shape.
The property of being skew.
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.