biased
adjUS /ˈbaɪəst/
Etymology From bias + -ed.
1
Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
- The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
- Obviously I'm biased, but…
2
Having outcomes with unequal probabilities; weighted.
- a biased coin
3
Angled at a slant.
- The table had a biased edge.
4
Business, Electrical, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics On which an electrical bias is applied.
5
Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
- Derived terms
- biasedly, biasedness, debiased, equibiased, nonbiased, overbiased, unbiased