Dictionary Definition
offset
Noun
1 the time at which something is supposed to
begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he
was the man for her" [syn: beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting
time, showtime]
[ant: middle, end]
2 a compensating equivalent [syn: counterbalance]
3 a horizontal branch from the base of plant that
produces new plants from buds at its tips [syn: stolon, runner]
5 a plate makes an inked impression on a
rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
[syn: offset
printing]
Verb
1 compensate for or counterbalance; "offset
deposits and withdrawals" [syn: countervail]
3 cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear
onto another surface
4 create an offset in; "offset a wall"
5 produce by offset printing; "offset the
conference proceedings" [also: offsetting]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
- In the context of "international trade": A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the the buying country. This kind of deals are often used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A time at which
something begins; outset.
- You can hear the gun go off at the offset of the race.
- Offset printing.
- The 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.
- The 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.
Translations
compensating equivalent
- Finnish: hyvitys, kompensaatio
- French: compensation
- Spanish: ajuste, descuento, compensación, reducción.
countertrade arrangement
- Finnish: kompensaatiokauppa
time at which something begins
- Finnish: alku, aloitus
offset printing
- Finnish: offsetpaino
- French: offset
- Hebrew: אופסט (offset), הדפסת אופסט
- Spanish: impresión Offset
difference in memory addresses
- Hebrew:
- Spanish: desplazamiento
distance by which one thing is out of alignment
with another
- ttbc Portuguese: desalinhamento
Verb
- To compensate for
something.
- I'll offset the time difference locally.
Translations
to compensate for something
- Finnish: kompensoida, korvata
- French: compenser, contrebalancer
- Spanish: compensar
See also
Extensive Definition
The term offset may refer to:
- Carbon offset
- Offset (computer science), A number indicating the distance (displacement) from the start of a data structure object and up to a given element
- Offset (gears)
- Offset (wheel), An important dimension of a vehicle wheel
- Offset dish antenna, A type of satellite dish
- Offset loan (finance), A type of flexible lending arrangement
- Offset printing
- Offset Software, a game development company
- Project Offset, the working title for a first-person shooter video game by Offset Software
- Offsets, Layers of plants in the plant nursery business
See also:
- Displacement (vector), specifies the position of a point or a particle in reference to an origin or to a previous position
offset in German: Offset
offset in Spanish: Offset
offset in French: Offset
offset in Italian: Offset
offset in Japanese: オフセット
offset in Polish: Offset
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absorb the shock, albertype, analog process,
annul, antacid, antidote, antipode, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antonym, atone for, balance, ballast, be at cross-purposes,
be opposed to, behavior pattern, book printing, branch, break the fall, bring to
nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, check, chromotypography,
chromotypy, chromoxylography,
clash, collotype, color printing,
come to nothing, compensate, compensation, conflict, conflict with,
consideration,
contra, contradict, contrapose, contrast with,
contravene, controvert, converse, counter, counteract, counteractant, counteraction, counteractive, counteragent, counterbalance, countercheck, counterirritant,
counterpoint,
counterpoise,
counterpole,
counterpose,
counterterm,
countervail,
counterweigh,
counterweight,
counterwork,
cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, digital process, electronography,
electrostatic printing, equalize, equalizer, equipoise, equiponderate, equivalent, even out, even
up, feeling, filiation, foil, frustrate, give-and-take,
graphic arts, gravure,
halftone engraving, history of printing, hunting, impress, impression, imprint, indemnify, input oscillation,
invalidate, inverse, job printing, juxtapose
in opposition, letterpress, letterpress
photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure,
mackle, make amends, make
good, make restitution, make up, make up for, makeweight, mimeograph, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, neutralizer, nullifier, nullify, obverse, offcut, offprint, offset lithography,
offshoot, onset, oppose, opposite, opposite number,
oppugn, oscillatory
behavior, outweigh,
overcorrection of error, overshoot, palaeotypography,
photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving,
photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography,
phototypography,
phototypy, photozincography,
planographic printing, planography, play at
cross-purposes, preventative, preventive, print, printing, printmaking, process, prophylactic, publication, publishing, quid pro quo,
recompense, redeem, redress, reimburse, reissue, relief printing,
remedy, repay, reprint, reverse, rotary photogravure,
rotogravure, run
counter to, self-excitation, set off, setoff, sheetwork, shoot, show consideration, show
mercy, show pity, soften,
soften the blow, something of value, sprout, square, square up, stamp, stencil, stop, stultify, suppress, the contrary, the
other side, three-color printing, thwart, tit for tat, two-color
printing, typography,
typolithography,
undo, vis-a-vis, vitiate, void, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography