offset
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
- 2.
(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.
- 3.
(c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- 4.
(attributive, often)(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.
offset lithographs
offset process
- 5.
(programming) 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.
- 6.
(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.
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.
- 8.
(surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- 9.
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.
- 10.
(botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- 11.
A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- 12.
(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.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
I'll offset the time difference locally.
to offset one charge against another
- 2.
(transitive)To place out of line.
- 3.
(transitive)To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.
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From off- + set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off. Compare ofsetten, from ofsettan.