Definition of "bias" in English

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.

2. (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

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

4. (electronics) 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.

5. (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.

6. (sports) 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.

7. (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

   • The last thing you want is for your camera to die when you finally get that selca with your bias.

verb

1. (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

   • Our prejudices bias our views.

2. (electronics) To give a bias to.

   • 2002, H. Dijkstra, J. Libby, Overview of silicon detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 494, 86–93, p. 87. On the ohmic side n⁺ is implanted to provide the ohmic contact to bias the detector.

adjective

1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

adverb

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

   • to cut cloth bias