bias
- Proper noun. One of the Seven Sages of Greece from Priene living in the 6th century BC.
- Noun. (countable) (uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
- Noun. (countable) (textile) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- Noun. (electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode.
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (sports) In the game of crown green 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.
- Verb. (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
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