noun Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
noun 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.
noun A time at which something begins; outset.
noun 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
noun 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.
noun 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.
noun 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.
noun A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.