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      offset
      noun
      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.
      (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.
      The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
      (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
      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.
      (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
      (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
      verb
      (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
      (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
      (transitive) To place out of line.
      adjective
      Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.
      adverb
      Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.
      Synonyms for offset
      countervailvcounterbalancevcompensatevequiponderatevcounterweighcancelvreimbursevcounterweightncompensationncounterwork
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