Definition of "bias"

bias

/ˈbaɪəs/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural biases or biasses
1. (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
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  Morality […] give[s] a bias to all their [men's] actions.
  1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], book I, page 12
  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
  1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 4
  Researchers worry that the people who are building artificial intelligence systems may be building their own biases into the technology.
  2020 December 3, Cade Metz, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.”, in The New York Times‎
  Reshaping [of British Railways] was far from perfect. It was tainted by statistical overreach, the unconscious biases of its author, and by the political demands being placed upon the BRB by government.
  2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49
2. (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
3. (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
4. (electronics) 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. (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. (sports) 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.
  Quotations
  there is a concealed bias within the spheroid
  1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.
7. (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
  Quotations
  The last thing you want is for your camera to die when you finally get that selca with your bias.
  2015, "Top 10 Tips For Travelling To Korea", UKP Magazine, Winter 2015, page 37
  Sweet, sensitive, and impossibly sassy, V is many fans' bias, and an integral member of the group.
  2019, Katy Sprinkel, The Big Book of BTS: The Deluxe Unofficial Bangtan Book, unnumbered page
  One in particular, Minho, really caught my eye. He became what is called my bias or favorite member.
  2019 May 7, Joelle Weatherford, “Can't stop the K-Pop train”, in The Eagle, Northeast Texas Community College, page 8
verb
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.
  Quotations
  No doubt they overlook the L.M.R.'s allegedly faulty financial estimates for the Euston-Liverpool/Manchester scheme, which have biassed the Treasury, and perhaps the open-minded Dr. Beeching, against electrification without renewed examination of projects.
  1963 June, “News and Comment: Le Plan Beeching”, in Modern Railways, page 364
2. (electronics) To give a bias to.
  Quotations
  On the ohmic side n+ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector.
  2002, H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, Overview of silicon detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494, 86–93, p. 87.
adjective
comparative more bias, superlative most bias
1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
  Quotations
  Thou, trumpet, there’s my purſe; / Now cracke thy lungs, and ſplit thy braſen pipe: / Blow, villaine, till thy ſphered Bias cheeke / Out-ſwell the collicke of puft Aquilon: / Come, ſtretch thy cheſt, and let thy eyes ſpout bloud: / Thou bloweſt for Hector.
  c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene v]
2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
adverb
not comparable
1. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

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