bias vs boilerplate

bias

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

  • A person's favourite member of a K-pop band. 

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

  • Inclination towards something. 

  • 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 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. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. 

  • Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. 

verb
  • To place bias upon; to influence. 

  • To give a bias to. 

adv
  • In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally. 

boilerplate

noun
  • Syndicated material. 

  • A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler. 

  • The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882). 

  • Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels. 

  • Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on. 

  • Formulaic or hackneyed language. 

  • A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements. 

verb
  • To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse. 

adj
  • Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature. 

  • Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. 

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