an inclination to favour or disfavour certain people or things, esp a personal prejudice
an inclination of temperament or outlook; esp a personal prejudice
a bent or tendency
in statistics, a tendency of an estimate to deviate in one direction from a true value, e.g. because of non-random sampling
(the bias) a line diagonal to the grain of a fabric
a skirt cut on the bias
the tendency of a bowl used in the game of bowls to take a curved path when rolled
the property of shape or weighting that causes this
a voltage applied to an electronic device, e.g. the grid of a thermionic valve, to enable it to function normally
[early French biais from Old Provençal]