bias

Inclination towards something.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

(nonstandard) Synonym of biased (“exhibiting bias; prejudiced”).

To place bias upon; to influence.

To give a bias to.

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.