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Offset

//ˈɔf.sɛt// adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective

1
Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.
"By then, the cast had become good friends and spent all their offset time together."

Adverb

1
Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.
"Offset Riley is romantically involved with Alexandra Maria Lara, who plays lan Curtis's lover Annik Honoré in Control."

Noun

1
Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
"Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat."
2
structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly wordnet
3
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.
4
a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper wordnet
5
A time at which something begins; outset.
"Later, Timberlake would tell Playboy that he noticed Ryan's talent from the offset, saying, 'I thought he had charisma that was just beaming, which has turned out to serve him really well as an actor.'"

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a natural consequence of development wordnet
7
The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface. attributive, often
"offset lithographs"
8
a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips wordnet
9
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."
10
a compensating equivalent wordnet
11
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."
12
the time at which something is supposed to begin wordnet
13
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."
14
A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
15
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.
16
A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
"[…] [I]nfected tulips are weakened by the viruses that cause the very patterns and swirls that fascinated horticulturists and investors in the first place. Such bulbs tend to dwindle away instead of fattening up and producing offsets."
17
A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
18
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.
19
A terrace on a hillside.

Verb

1
To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction. transitive
"I'll offset the time difference locally."
2
produce by offset printing wordnet
3
To place out of line. transitive
4
create an offset in wordnet
5
To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.). transitive

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cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface wordnet
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make up for wordnet
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compensate for or counterbalance wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From off- + set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off. Compare Middle English ofsetten (“to encumber, harass, beset, besiege”), from Old English ofsettan (“to press, oppress, overwhelm, crush”).

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