self-bias

[ self-bahy-uhs ]

noun

, Electronics.

1. voltage developed on an electrode in a vacuum tube circuit as a result of current flowing through a resistor in a lead to the cathode or to a grid.

Example Sentences

"The self-bias effect shows just how pervasive and entrenched accent prejudice is."

From BBC

No right judgment can ever be formed on any subject having a moral or intellectual bearing without benevolence; for so strong is man's natural self-bias, that, without this restraining principle, he insensibly becomes a competitor in all such cases presented to his mind; and, when the comparison is thus made personal, unless the odds be immeasurably against him, his decision will rarely be impartial.

From Project Gutenberg