SKEWNESS

lopsidedness, skewness

(noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

skewness (countable and uncountable, plural skewnesses)

The property of being skew.

(statistics) A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as \(\scriptstyle\gamma_1 = \frac{\mu_3}{\sigma^3}, \!\) where \(\mu_3\) is the third moment about the mean and \(\sigma\) is the standard deviation.

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17 March 2025

PARAMAGNET

(noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it


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