Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Inclination towards something. · The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric. · A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference. · 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.
To place bias upon; to influence. · To give a bias to.
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. · Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth. · Synonym of biased (“exhibiting bias; prejudiced”).
c. 1520 in the sense "oblique line". As a technical term in the game of bowls c. 1560, whence the figurative use (c. 1570). From Middle French biais, adverbially ("sideways, askance, against the grain") c. 1250, as a noun ("oblique angle, slant") from the late 16th century. The French word is likely from Old Occitan biais, itself of obscure origin, most likely from Vulgar Latin *biaxius (“with two axes”).
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