English
Noun
en-noun
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
#: Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
- context|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.
- rfv-sense A time at which something begins.
#: You can hear the gun go off at the offset of the race.
- Offset printing.
- 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.
- 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
trans-top|compensating equivalent
Finnish: hyvitys, kompensaatio
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Spanish: ajuste, descuento, compensación, reducción.
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trans-top|countertrade arrangement
Finnish: kompensaatiokauppa
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trans-top| time at which something begins
Finnish: alku, aloitus
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trans-top|offset printing
Finnish: offsetpaino
French: offset
Hebrew: ��פס� (offset), ��פסת ��פס�
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Spanish: impresión Offset
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trans-top|difference in memory addresses
Spanish: desplazamiento
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trans-top|distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another
Finnish: siirros, poikkeama
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ttbc|Hebrew: ��ס�|�ֵסֶ� (hesset)
ttbc|Portuguese: desalinhamento
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Verb
en-verb|offsets|offsetting|offset
- To compensate for something.
#:I'll offset the time diffence locally.
Translations
trans-top|To compensate for something
Spanish: compensar
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See also
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