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A SKEW angle is a line or edge which is not parallel to, or not at right angles to lines or edges which are adjacent to it.. In the case of a nail driven into a piece of wood, the nail is driven in at any angle to the wood surface, which is NOT 90 degrees. When we say that something is 'askew' we mean that it's edge or surface is out of alignment or not in line with 2 edges or 2 surfaces which are adjacent to . Carpenters drive nails into wood at a skew angle quite often. The nail driven into the corners of a picture frame, where the pieces touch each other at a mitre joint, are usually driven in at a skew angle so as to connect the 2 pieces together. Roof rafters are always 'skew nailed' to the timber on the top of the wall frame. They do this because you cannot buy nails 150mm long , and thin enough to be driven in vertically without splitting the rafter and damaging it. Long thin nails also bend too easily and are useless

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A skew angle is the angle formed between a line and a plane, where the line is not perpendicular to the plane. In geometry, a skew angle measures the deviation from being parallel or perpendicular. It is commonly used when discussing non-parallel or non-perpendicular lines in three-dimensional space.

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