bias

  1. Proper noun.  One of the Seven Sages of Greece from Priene living in the 6th century BC.
  2. Noun.  (countable) (uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
  3. Noun.  (countable) (textile) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
  4. Noun.  (electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.