Usually means: Inclination or prejudice for or against.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bias, bias: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Bias, bias: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bias: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bias: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bias: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bias, bias: Wordnik
  7. bias: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bias: Wiktionary
  9. bias: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bias: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bias: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bias: Dictionary.com
  13. bias: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bias: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bias (disambiguation), Bias (electrical engineering), Bias (mythology), Bias (son of Amythaon), Bias (statistics), Bias (textile), Bias: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bias: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bias: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bias: Rhymezone
  19. bias: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bias: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bias: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Bias: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. bias: Free Dictionary
  24. bias: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. bias: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. bias: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bias: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. bias: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. bias: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. bias: Glossary of research economics
  8. Bias: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  9. Bias: Management Dictionary
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. bias: Legal dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. bias: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bias: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. bias: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  10. bias: Medical dictionary
  11. Bias: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Political (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  4. BIAS: Acronym Finder
  5. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  6. bias: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  3. Bias: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. bias: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. Statistics (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bias: Sports Definitions

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. bias: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
noun:  (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
noun:  (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
verb:  (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
verb:  (electronics) To give a bias to.
adjective:  Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
adjective:  Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
adverb:  In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
noun:  (historical) One of the Seven Sages of Greece from Priene, living in the 6th century BC.
noun:  A surname.

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