biases

/หˆbaษชษ™sษชz/

IPA: /B AY1 AH0 S IH0 Z/

noun
  1. 1

    Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.

  2. 2

    The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

  3. 3

    A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

    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. 6

    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.

  7. 7

    A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

verb
  1. 1

    To place bias upon; to influence.

    โ€œOur prejudices bias our views.โ€

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bias, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biases