bias
Forms
- Plural
- biases
- Comparative
- more bias
- Superlative
- most bias
- present (v1)
- bias
- past (v2)
- biased
- past participle (v3)
- biased
- present participle
- biasing
- 3rd person singular
- biases
Definitions
1.Inclination towards something.
- Researchers worry that the people who are building artificial intelligence systems may be building their own biases into the technology.
- Morality […] give[s] a bias to all their [men's] actions.
- 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.
2.The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
3.A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
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.
1.Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
2.Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
1.To place bias upon; to influence.
- Our prejudices bias our views.
2.To give a bias to.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3495
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570).
From Middle French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century.