Meaning

• Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.

• The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

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

• A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.

• 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.

• In the games of crown green bowls and lawn 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. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.

• A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

Meaning

• To place bias upon; to influence.

  "Our prejudices bias our views."

Meaning

• Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

• Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Meaning

• In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

  "to cut cloth bias"