Definizione monolingua

bias

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.

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) (textile) 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.

Definizione dizionario bias

	pregiudizio
	inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality
	Attitudine caratterizzata da una parzialità che impedisce un giudizio obiettivo di qualcosa o di una situazione.
	A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation.

	inclinazione
	inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality

	predisposizione
	inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality

deviazione

diagonale

incidere

influenza

influenzare

influire

parzialità

Altri significati:

(countable) (textile) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric

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.

(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

(countable) (uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection

(electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode

(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.