skośny — meaning in English

English meaning

• diagonal adj Slanted; running at an angle rather than straight up-and-down or side-to-side.
• skew verb To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

Senses

skośny is used for these senses in English:

• diagonal (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
• skew (not comparable) Neither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
• slanting Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.

diagonal — full definition

1. adj Slanted; running at an angle rather than straight up-and-down or side-to-side.
2. noun A line joining two non-adjacent corners of a shape, such as a square.

skew — full definition

1. verb To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
2. verb To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
3. verb To bias or distort in a particular direction.
4. verb To hurl or throw.

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