Biasing in electronics is the method of establishing predetermined voltages or currents at various points of an electronic circuit to set an appropriate operating point. The operating point of a device, also known as bias point, quiescent point, or Q-point, is the steady-state operating condition of an active device (a transistor or vacuum tube) with no input signal applied.

In electrical engineering, the term bias has the following meanings:

Most often, bias simply refers to a fixed DC voltage applied to the same point in a circuit as an alternating current (AC) signal, frequently to select the desired operating response of a semiconductor or other electronic component (forward or reverse bias). For example, a bias voltage is applied to a transistor in an electronic amplifier to allow the transistor to operate in a particular region of its transconductance curve. For vacuum tubes, a (much higher) grid bias voltage is also often applied to the grid electrodes for precisely the same reason.