Noun

(countable, uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 4.

nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much

* John Locke

Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions.

(countable, textiles) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric

(countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

(electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode

(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

(sports) In the game of crown green 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.

* Sir Walter Scott

there is a concealed bias within the spheroid

Noun

(en noun)

The act of departing or something that has departed.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

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A deviation from a plan or procedure.

* Prescott

any departure from a national standard

(euphemism) A death.

* Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 6

The time of my departure is at hand.

* Sir Philip Sidney

His timely departure barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

(navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.

(legal) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

(Bouvier)

(obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

* Milton

no other remedy but absolute departure