单词 | self-biased |
释义 | self-biasedadj. 1. Having a bias towards oneself; predisposed to favour oneself or one's own views, or to pursue one's own advantage; characterized by or exhibiting such a bias or predisposition. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [adjective] self-seeking?1575 self-respecting1597 proprietariousa1633 self-ended1643 self-interessed1645 self-interested1648 self-concerned1653 self-concerning1656 self-biased1662 self-ending1698 interested1705 self-interesting1710 1662 H. Vane Two Treat. 89 By the two-horned Beast, arising out of the Earth, we are to understand the Usurpation of the Prophetical Office of Christ, by a false Spirit, or the said Office as deceitfully executed in a private Spirit of self-byassed Reason. ?1790 S. Pattison Orig. Poems 24 Self-bias'd, erst celestials fell by pride. 1856 Illustr. London News 15 Nov. 496/2 When Turner looked outward he showed himself the great master; but when the later wrong-headed, self-biased Turner looked inward, he found a factitious Turnerian nature, resembling nothing either on land or water. 1964 Amarillo (Texas) Daily News 13 Aug. 30/5 My self-biased neighbor says he has voted in several elections which he thought ought to have been cancelled after he saw how they came out. 2007 Rhetoric Rev. 26 127 Daniel Dennett (a renowned science writer himself) objects to Gould's framing of modern science in a self-biased manner for his public audience. 2. Electronics. Designating an electronic circuit or component (esp. a thermionic valve or transistor) that generates its own bias (bias n. 7a). ΚΠ 1930 Proc. IRE 18 352 A common method of controlling volume is indicated in Fig. 3, in which the control grid is ‘self-biased’. 1967 IEEE Trans. Broadcast & Television Receivers 13 77/1 A typical auto radio that used bipolar transistors was modified by substitution of a self-biased dual-gate MOS [metal-oxide-semiconductor] transistor. 2009 G. Weber All About Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifiers vi. 179 Anytime you replace output tubes the bias should be adjusted properly unless the amp is self-biased. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1662 |
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