distorção — meaning in English

English meaning

• bias noun An unfair leaning toward or against something, often without a person even realizing it.
• distortion noun A change that twists something out of its normal shape or meaning.

Senses

distorção is used for these senses in English:

• bias (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
• skewness The property of being skew.

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.

distortion — full definition

1. noun A change that twists something out of its normal shape or meaning.
2. noun Unwanted noise or crackle added to sound, or a fuzzy effect used deliberately on electric guitars.

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