different between deviate vs offset

English

Etymology

Late Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare, from the phrase de via.

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • d?'v??t, IPA^(key): /?di?vie?t/
• Noun:
  • d?'v??t, IPA^(key): /?di?vi.?t/

Noun

deviate (plural deviates)

1. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.

   Synonyms: deviant, degenerate, pervert

   • 1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis [1]

     ...Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be...

   • 1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing [2]

     Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court ...

   • 2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes [3]

     ...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...

2. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
   • 1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education [4]

     It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...

   • 2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics [5]

     This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.

   • 2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R [6]

     This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...

Translations

Verb

deviate (third-person singular simple present deviates, present participle deviating, simple past and past participle deviated)

1. (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
3. (transitive) To cause to diverge.

Synonyms

• (change course): swerve, veer
• (stray): stray, wander

Translations

Related terms

• deviant
• deviation

Italian

Verb

deviate

1. second-person plural present present subjunctive/imperative of deviare

Anagrams

• vediate
• videate

Latin

Verb

d?vi?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?vi?

English

Etymology

From off- +? set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /??f.s?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /??f.s?t/
• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?s?t/, /??f.s?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?f?s?t/, /??f.s?t/

Noun

offset (plural offsets)

1. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.

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. (obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
4. (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.

5. (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.

6. (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.

7. The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.

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.
13. (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.

Translations

Verb

offset (third-person singular simple present offsets, present participle offsetting, simple past and past participle offset or offsetted)

1. (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
2. (transitive) To place out of line.
3. (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

Translations

See also

• onset

Anagrams

• set off, set-off, setoff

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ofsete

Noun

offset m (plural offsets)

1. (programming) offset (byte difference between memory addresses)
2. (printing) offset (a printing method)