Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BIAS
BIAS
Definitions of BIAS
- Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
- Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
- In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
- (historical) One of the Seven Sages of Greece from Priene, living in the 6th century BC.
- A surname.
- (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
- (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.[from 1560s]
- (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
- (electronics) To give a bias to.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BIAS in a Sentence
- Transit photometry and Doppler spectroscopy have found the most, but these methods suffer from a clear observational bias favoring the detection of planets near the star; thus, 85% of the exoplanets detected are inside the tidal locking zone.
- A hate crime (also known a bias crime) is crime where a perpetrator targets a victim because of their physical appearance or perceived membership of a certain social group.
- In statistics, sampling bias is a bias in which a sample is collected in such a way that some members of the intended population have a lower or higher sampling probability than others.
- The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening of the standards of journalism, rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article.
- Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; absence of systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long after the pseudoscientific hypotheses have been experimentally discredited.
- It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to controlling sources of bias and error.
- In electronic circuits, resistors are used to reduce current flow, adjust signal levels, to divide voltages, bias active elements, and terminate transmission lines, among other uses.
- Tape bias is the term for two techniques, AC bias and DC bias, that improve the fidelity of analogue tape recorders.
- Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair.
- Bush administration, AIM accused the media of bias against the Iraq War, defended the Bush administration's use of torture, and campaigned to stop the United States from signing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
- In economics and social policy, infrastructure bias is the influence of the location and availability of pre-existing infrastructure, such as roads and telecommunications facilities, on social and economic development.
- Some practitioners of these fields have attempted to develop methods and theories to compensate for or eliminate cultural bias.
- All academic research in linguistics is descriptive; like all other scientific disciplines, it seeks to describe reality, without the bias of preconceived ideas about how it ought to be.
- Blind experiment (single-blind or double-blind), a procedure to reduce bias in scientific experiments.
- Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values.
- Her notorious reputation may have resulted from political bias, but works of art and literature have perpetuated it into modern times.
- Matilda effect, a bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists whose work is attributed to their male colleagues.
- Loki, amongst other things, accuses the gods of moralistic sexual impropriety, the practice of seiðr (sorcery), and bias.
- Her reputation was based on the bias of the Romans against Eastern princesses like Cleopatra, or later Zenobia.
- Today it is believed that this was a great historical fault although at that time this was probably the only sensible decision because Italy according to the London Pact with the victorious Entente forces from 1915 without bias occupied Primorska, Istria (Istra) and Zadar in Dalmatia and Serbia was pressing for unification.
- Pascal is known for his sharp criticisms of the data management industry, trade press, current state of higher education, Western culture and alleged media bias.
- Confirmation bias is believed to be largely responsible for the inaccurate judgments that people make when evaluating information, given that humans typically interpret and recall information that appeals to their own biases.
- In machine learning (ML), boosting is an ensemble metaheuristic for primarily reducing bias (as opposed to variance).
- Bias Vineyard, near the small city of Berger, is located within the Hermann American Viticultural Area (AVA), designated in 1983.
- However, speculative fiction (SF) and soft science fiction also offer the freedom to imagine alien or galactic societies different from real-life cultures, making it a tool to examine sexual bias, heteronormativity, and gender bias and enabling the reader to reconsider their cultural assumptions.
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