bias
see also: Bias
Pronunciation Noun
Bias
Proper noun
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see also: Bias
Pronunciation Noun
bias
- (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.
- nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242 ↗, book I, page 12 ↗:
- Morality […] give[s] a bias to all their [men's] actions.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.
- (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- (electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
- (statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- (sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.[from 1560s]
- 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. [...] In Four Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685 ↗:
- (South Korean pop culture fandom slang) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- 2015, "Top 10 Tips For Travelling To Korea", UKP Magazine, Winter 2015, page 37 ↗:
- The last thing you want is for your camera to die when you finally get that selca with your bias.
- 2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page ↗:
- Sweet, sensitive, and impossibly sassy, V is many fans' bias, and an integral member of the group.
- 2019, Joelle Weatherford, "Can't stop the K-Pop train", The Eagle (Northeast Texas Community College), 7 May 2019, page 8 ↗:
- One in particular, Minho, really caught my eye. He became what is called my bias or favorite member.
- 2015, "Top 10 Tips For Travelling To Korea", UKP Magazine, Winter 2015, page 37 ↗:
- French: préjugé, parti-pris
- German: Voreingenommenheit, Neigung, Ausrichtung, Vorliebe, Verzerrung
- Italian: pregiudizio, predisposizione, inclinazione, tendenza, predilezione, preferenza, influenza
- Portuguese: viés, distorção, tendência, tendenciosidade
- Russian: предубежде́ние
- Spanish: inclinación, predisposición, parcialidad, prejuicio, sesgo, preferencia, predilección, tendencia
- German: Bias, Vorspannung
- Italian: polarizzazione
- Russian: смеще́ние
- French: biais
- German: Verzerrung
- Italian: distorsione
- Portuguese: enviesamento
- Spanish: sesgo
bias (biases, present participle biasing; past biased, past participle biased)
- (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
- Our prejudices bias our views.
- 2002, H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, [https://userweb.jlab.org/~gotra/svt/doc/overview%20of%20silicon%20detectors.pdf Overview of silicon detectors], Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494, 86–93, p. 87.
- On the ohmic side n+ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector.
- Italian: influenzare, distorcere, condizionare, influire, orientare
bias
- Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
- circa 1601 William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene 5,
- Thou, trumpet, there’s my purse.
- Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:
- Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek
- Outswell the colic of puff’d Aquilon:
- circa 1601 William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene 5,
- Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
- (inclined to one side) biased
- Italian: penzolante, inclinato
- Italian: di sbieco
bias (not comparable)
- In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
- to cut cloth bias
- Italian: di sbieco, diagonalmente
Bias
Proper noun
- (historical) One of the Seven Sages of Greece from Priene, living in the 6th century BC.
- Russian: Биа́нт
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