bias

See also Bias

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbaɪəs/, X-SAMPA: /"baI@s/

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• Rhymes: -aɪəs

Etymology

From Middle French biasis, from Old Provençal biais (“way, angle, slant”).

Noun

Wikipedia bias (countable and uncountable; plural biases or biasses)

1. (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

2. (countable, textiles) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric
3. (electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode
4. (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
5. (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.

Derived terms

• bias tape

Translations

inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality

• Arabic: تحيز (ar) (taHayyuz) m
• Czech: zaujetí (cs) n, předpojatost (cs) f
• Dutch: vooroordeel (nl), vooringenomenheid (nl)
• German: Voreingenommenheit (de) f
• Greek: προκατάληψη (el) (prokatálipsi) f
• Hungarian: elfogultság (hu), részrehajlás (hu)
• Italian: pregiudizio (it) m, predisposizione (it) f, inclinazione (it) f

• Norwegian: Fordom (no), partiskhet (no)
• Portuguese: viés m, distorção f, tendência f
• Russian: предубеждение (ru) (predubeždenije)
• Spanish: inclinación (es) f, predisposición (es) f, parcialidad (es) f, prejuicio (es) f, sesgo (es), preferencia (es) f, predilección (es) f, tendencia (es) f
• Swedish: partiskhet (sv) c

a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode

• Russian: смещение (ru) (smeščenije) n

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan:tendència, prejudici, predisposició
• French: préjugé, parti-pris

• Norwegian: partisk (no)

Verb

bias (third-person singular simple present biases or biasses, present participle biasing or biassing, simple past and past participle biased or biassed)

1. (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

   Our prejudices bias our views.

Anagrams

• IBSA, isba

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bies

Verb

bias

1. third-person singular future relative of at·tá