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1. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric
   "a bias fold"

1. A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
   - prejudice, preconception
    
2. A line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
   - diagonal
    
3. (statistics) the difference between the expectation value of an estimator and the true value

1. Influence in an unfair way
   "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours";
   - skew
    
2. Cause to be biased
   - predetermine, skew

Derived forms: biased, biases, biasing, biassing, biassed

See also: oblique

Type of: partiality, partisanship, prejudice, prepossess, straight line

Encyclopedia: Bias, Punjab