distorto — meaning in English

English meaning

• awry adj Turned or twisted to one side; crooked or out of the expected position.
• biased adj Unfairly favoring one side; showing prejudice.
• skewed adj Tilted or twisted away from the expected straight line or angle.

Senses

distorto is used for these senses in English:

• awry (figurative) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course
• biased (statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
• skewed Twisted at an angle.

awry — full definition

1. adj Turned or twisted to one side; crooked or out of the expected position.
2. adv Wrongly; off course; not as planned.

biased — full definition

1. adj Unfairly favoring one side; showing prejudice.
2. adj Weighted so that some outcomes are more likely than others.

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