Bias vs. Offset

Bias vs. Offset — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Bias and Offset

Biasnoun

Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.

Offsetnoun

Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.

Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.

Biasnoun

The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

Offsetnoun

(international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.

Biasnoun

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

Offsetnoun

A time at which something begins; outset.

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Biasnoun

(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.

Offsetnoun

The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.

offset lithographsoffset process

Biasnoun

(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.

Offsetnoun

(programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.

An array of bytes uses its index as the offset, of words a multiple thereof.

Biasnoun

(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.

Offsetnoun

(signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.

The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensor's offset and drift variations.
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Biasnoun

(fandom slang) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

Offsetnoun

The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.

There is a small offset between the switch and the indicator which some users found confusing.

Biasverb

(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

Our prejudices bias our views.

Offsetnoun

(surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.

Biasverb

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Offsetnoun

An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.

Biasadjective

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Offsetnoun

(botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.

Biasadjective

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Offsetnoun

A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

Biasadverb

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

to cut cloth bias

Offsetnoun

(architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.

Biasnoun

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

Offsetnoun

(architecture) A terrace on a hillside.

Biasnoun

a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

Offsetverb

(transitive) To compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.

I'll offset the time difference locally.to offset one charge against another

Biasverb

influence in an unfair way;

you are biasing my choice by telling me yours

Offsetverb

(transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

Biasverb

cause to be biased

Offsetnoun

the time at which something is supposed to begin;

they got an early startshe knew from the get-go that he was the man for her

Biasadjective

slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric;

a bias fold

Offsetnoun

a compensating equivalent

Offsetnoun

a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

Offsetnoun

a natural consequence of development

Offsetnoun

a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper

Offsetnoun

structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly

Offsetverb

compensate for or counterbalance;

offset deposits and withdrawals

Offsetverb

make up for;

His skills offset his opponent's superior strength

Offsetverb

cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface

Offsetverb

create an offset in;

offset a wall

Offsetverb

produce by offset printing;

offset the conference proceedings