Noun

(en noun)

The act of assuming]], or taking to or upon one's self; the act of [[take up, taking up or adopting.

His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.

Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty.

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.

* {{quote-journal, year=1976, author=, title=The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 10 citation

, passage=No doubt a finite evaluative argument must make some unargued evaluative assumptions, just as finite factual arguments must make some unargued factual assumptions.}}

(logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

The taking of a person up into heaven.

A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

(rhetoric) Assumptio.

Noun

(countable, uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.

nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much

* John Locke

Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions.

(countable, textiles) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric

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

(electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode

(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

(sports) In the game of crown green 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.

* Sir Walter Scott

there is a concealed bias within the spheroid