1. a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned: The hiring manager was found to have shown bias against job applicants who wore less expensive clothing.The magazine’s bias is toward art rather than photography.We need to set aside our strong bias in favor of the idea and evaluate it logically.
2. unreasonably hostile feelings or opinions about a social group; prejudice: The show’s host has faced accusations of racial bias.
3. an oblique or diagonal line of direction, especially across a woven fabric.
4. a systematic as opposed to random distortion of a statistic as a result of sampling procedure.
5. the application of a steady voltage or current to an active device, such as a diode or transistor, to produce a desired mode of operation.
6. a high-frequency alternating current applied to the recording head of a tape recorder during recording in order to reduce distortion.
7. Lawn Bowling.
• a slight bulge or greater weight on one side of the ball or bowl.
• the curved course made by such a ball when rolled.

8. cut, set, folded, etc., diagonally: This material requires a bias cut. I used bias binding to finish the garment.

9. in a diagonal manner; obliquely; slantingly: Cut your material bias for extra stretch.

10. to cause to hold or exhibit a particular bias; to influence, especially unfairly: The defendant gave a tearful plea designed to bias the jury.The survey was heavily biased toward highly educated people.
11. to apply a steady voltage or current to (the input of an active device).

12. on the bias,
• in the diagonal direction of the cloth: Many of her designs were cut on the bias, making the fabric soft and fluid.
• out of line; slanting.

1. Greek philosopher, born in Ionia.

1. mental tendency or inclination, esp an irrational preference or prejudice
2. a diagonal line or cut across the weave of a fabric
3. the voltage applied to an electronic device or system to establish suitable working conditions
4. bowls
• a bulge or weight inside one side of a bowl
• the curved course of such a bowl on the green
5. statistics
• an extraneous latent influence on, unrecognized conflated variable in, or selectivity in a sample which influences its distribution and so renders it unable to reflect the desired population parameters
• if T is an estimator of the parameter θ, the expected value of (T–θ)
6. an inaudible high-frequency signal used to improve the quality of a tape recording

7. slanting obliquely; diagonal

8. obliquely; diagonally

9. to cause to have a bias; prejudice; influence

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