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What is a skew line?

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In three-dimensional geometry, skew lines are two lines that do not intersect and are not parallel.
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Skew lines are non-coplanar lines that do not intersect. For example, take a look at the image provided below. Lines m and n in the diagram do not lie on the same plane and they don't intersect. Therefore, we can say that line m is skew to line n.

What is a skew line?-example-1
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