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1.nounAnything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent."Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat."
2.nounA form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
3.noun(c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
4.nounThe offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface."offset lithographs"
5.nounThe difference between a target memory address and a base address."An array of bytes uses its index as the offset, of words a multiple thereof."
6.noun(signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level."The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensor's offset and drift variations."
7.nounThe distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another."There is a small offset between the switch and the indicator which some users found confusing."
8.nounA short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
9.nounAn abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
10.nounA short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
11.nounA spur from a range of hills or mountains.
12.nounA horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
13.nounA terrace on a hillside.
14.verbTo compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction."I'll offset the time difference locally."
15.verbTo form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).