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Uncommon
noun
•
Inclination
towards something.
•
In Textiles:
The
diagonal
line
between
warp and weft
in a
woven
fabric
.
•
In Textiles:
A
wedge-shaped
piece
of
cloth
taken out
of a
garment
(such as the
waist
of a
dress
) to
diminish
its
circumference
.
•
In 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
.
•
In 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.
•
In 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
.
•
In Idol fandom:
A person's
favourite
member
of a
K-pop
band
.
verb
•
To
place
bias
upon; to
influence
.
•
In Electronics:
To
give
a
bias
to.
adj
•
Inclined
to
one side
;
swelled
on
one side
.
•
Cut
slanting
or
diagonally
, as
cloth
.
adv
•
In a
slanting
manner
;
crosswise
;
obliquely
;
diagonally
.
name
•
One of
th
e
Seven Sages
of
Greece
from
Priene
,
living in
th
e 6th
century
BC
.
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Rhymes
bias
pious
Darius
Lineage
bias
English
biasis
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
biais
Old Provençal (to 1500)
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