Perspective vs Bias - What's the difference?
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A view, vista or outlook.
The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
(figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
The ability to consider things in such relative perspective
A perspective glass.
* Bishop Joseph Hall
A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
of, in or relating to perspective
(obsolete) providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical
(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. ยง 4.
* John Locke
(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
To place bias upon; to influence.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
As a noun perspective
is a view, vista or outlook.As an adjective perspective
is of, in or relating to perspective.As a proper noun bias is
.perspective
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* linear perspective * metaperspective * microperspective * put something into perspectiveAdjective
(en adjective)- a perspective drawing
- (Francis Bacon)
bias
English
Noun
- 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
- Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions.
- there is a concealed bias within the spheroid
Derived terms
* bias tapeVerb
- Our prejudices bias our views.
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Shakespeare)
Adverb
(-)- to cut cloth bias