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  1. The definition of biased is unfairly showing favoritism towards something or someone.

    If you favored one of the candidates going into a contest over the other, this is an example of when you were biased.

  1. Biased means influenced.

    If you convinced the judges to lean towards the candidate of your choice by offering them a bribe, this is an example of when you biased the judges.



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also bi·assed

Marked by or exhibiting bias; prejudiced: gave a biased account of the trial.

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Variant of bias

noun pl. biases
  1. a line, cut or sewn diagonally across the weave of cloth, as in making seams, binding tape, etc.
  2. a mental leaning or inclination; partiality; bent
  3. Lawn Bowling
    1. the bulge in the side of the ball (the bowl) that causes it to roll in a curve
    2. this curve or tendency to curve
    3. the force causing this
  4. Electronics a high-frequency signal or tone added to a tape during the recording process so as to reduce distortion and increase frequency response
  5. Radio the fixed voltage applied to an electrode circuit to control the mode of operation, usually measured with the cathode voltage as reference
  6. Statistics any systematic error contributing to the difference between statistical values in a population and a sample drawn from it

Origin: Middle French biais, a slope, slant ; from Old French ; from Old ProvenÃ§al ; from uncertain or unknown; perhaps

slanting; diagonal
  1. diagonally
  2. Obsolete awry
transitive verb biased or biassed, biasing or biassing
  1. to cause to have a bias; influence; prejudice
  2. Radio to apply a bias to (an electrode)
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