biasとは

発音

• (Received 発音, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəs/
• 韻: -aɪəs

名詞

bias (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 biases または 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

   • John Locke

     Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions.

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.[from 1560s]
   • Sir Walter Scott

     there is a concealed bias within the spheroid

7. (fandom スラング) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

派生語

• bias tape
• on the bias

動詞

bias (三人称単数 現在形 biases または biasses, 現在分詞 biasing または biassing, 過去形および過去分詞形 biased または biassed)

1. (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

   Our prejudices bias our views.

2. (electronics) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • On the ohmic side n⁺ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector. H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, Overview of silicon detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494 (2002) 86–93, p. 87.

形容詞

bias (comparative more bias, superlative most bias)

1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene 5,^[1]

     Thou, trumpet, there’s my purse.

     Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:

     Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek

     Outswell the colic of puff’d Aquilon:

2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

同意語

• (inclined to one side): biased

副詞

bias (not comparable)

1. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

   to cut cloth bias

Further reading

• bias on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• ABIs, AIBs, IABs, IBSA, bais, basi-, isba