单词 | overbias |
释义 | overbiasv. rare. 1. transitive. To bias excessively; to influence too much in one direction. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] > have greater influence than > bias by excessive influence overbias1648 overbalance1702 1648 J. Vernon Swords Abuse Asserted 3 Your selves would be indeed accounted Christians, and not (as some suspect) over-byassed, according to the exigency of Civil Interest. 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα ii. x. 180 I find some men of worth..over-awed by the vulgar, or over-biassed by their own private interests. 1998 Managing Service Quality (Nexis) 8 426 Because of the limited response from part-time professional nursing assistants, the results may be overbiased by representation of full-time nursing assistants. 2001 BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific (Nexis) 3 Mar. His in-depth investigations..came out in 1999 with another proposal, criticizing some localities that over-biased towards larger State-owned enterprises to the neglect of smaller non-governmental ones. 2. transitive. Electronics. To supply with a bias current at a level greater than that which would result in peak output voltage. ΚΠ 1939 H. J. Reich Theory & Applic. Electron Tubes xii. 459 Two high-vacuum amplifier tubes..are alternately overbiased by the voltage drop through the anode resistors of the switching circuit. 1996 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Apr. h3 Overbiasing a tape causes high frequencies to roll off. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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