A skew partition refers to a method of organizing data that partitions a dataset in such a way that it may be unbalanced or uneven, leading to potential performance issues in distributed systems or parallel processing environments. The term "skew" suggests that the distribution of data is not uniform; some partitions contain significantly more data than others. In the context of databases or data processing frameworks, skew partitions can lead to certain tasks taking considerably longer to complete because they have to handle more data than others.
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