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harha — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bias noun An unfair leaning toward or against something, often without a person even realizing it.
  • Chimera noun An organism, plan, or idea made up of very different or clashing parts, especially one that is unrealistic.
  • illusion noun A false or misleading impression created by something that appears real.
  • smoke noun The visible gas and particles given off by something burning.
  • subterfuge noun A trick or deceptive scheme used to avoid something or achieve a hidden goal.

Senses

harha is used for these senses in English:

  • bias (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.
  • chimera (figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
  • illusion (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
  • illusion (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
  • smoke (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
  • subterfuge (uncountable) Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.

bias — full definition

  1. noun An unfair leaning toward or against something, often without a person even realizing it.
  2. noun A diagonal direction across woven fabric, cut at 45 degrees to the straight threads.
  3. noun In statistics, a systematic error that skews a measurement or estimate away from the true value.
  4. verb To unfairly influence someone or something in a particular direction.

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