offset

IPA: ɔfsˈɛt

Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
(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 buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
(c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
(printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
(programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
(signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
(surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
An 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.
(botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
(architecture) A 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.
(architecture) A terrace on a hillside.

(transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
(transitive) To place out of line.
(transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

Examples of "offset" in Sentences

It was offset to the right.
Heave is the measured horizontal offset of the fault.
A 40 ton counterweight offsets the weight of the cars.
The projections are offset from the axis of the insert.
The slits are offset to facilitate viewing of the coupons.
The thickness of the shim determines the amount of offset.
The vibration is caused by the offset weight of the vibrator.
The cabin is offset to the left of the train facing outwards.
The sum of the hinge and pintle standoff will equal the offset.
In consequence, it was sold as a platemaker to the offset lithography market.
; _offset: offset of the UInt from the start of the struct, in UInt size units
And while there was no money for a solar-powered studio, the label offset its energy use by purchasing credits from Native Energy.
* @param integer $offset number of UTF-8 characters offset (from left) * @param integer $length (optional) length in UTF-8 characters from offset