bias

Meanings

Plural: biases, biasses

Noun

• a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
• a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
• 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.
• 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

• influence in an unfair way
  • "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"
• cause to be biased
• To place bias upon; to influence.
• To give a bias to.

Adjective Satellite

• slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric
  • "a bias fold"

Adj

• Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
• Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Adv

• In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

Synonyms

biased, diagonal, partiality, preconception, predetermine, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice

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