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offset
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)
- 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.
- (obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (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.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- 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.
Translations
Verb
offset (third-person singular simple present offsets, present participle offsetting, simple past and past participle offset or offsetted)
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- (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)
- (programming) offset (byte difference between memory addresses)
- (printing) offset (a printing method)
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foothold
English
Etymology
foot +? hold
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?tho?ld/
Noun
foothold (plural footholds)
- (climbing) A solid grip with the feet.
- (by extension) A secure position from which it is difficult to be dislodged.
- (military) Airhead, beachhead, bridgehead, lodgement.
Translations
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