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bias
/ˈbaɪəs/
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What does bias mean?
noun
- Inclination towards something.
- The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
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noun
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
verb
- To place bias upon; to influence.
- To give a bias to.
adjective
- Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
- Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
- Synonym of biased (“exhibiting bias; prejudiced”).
adverb
- In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
proper noun
- A surname.
- (historical) One of the Seven Sages of Greece from Priene, living in the 6th century BCE.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbaɪəs/
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Whereupon, not being able to contradict these unpleasant facts, he contradicted his own strongest bias and said, “I am a fool.”
It flows from the fact that in each exists a bias toward affection, a craving for the pleasure of being loved.
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For, indeed, who is there alive that will not be swayed by his bias and partiality to the place of his birth?
But the circumstance which gave the bias and direction to the main labours of his life originated in his generosity and benevolence.
The advocates and judges of our times find bias enough in all causes to accommodate them to what they themselves think fit.