Offset

Noun

 * 1) Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
 * Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
 * 1)  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 agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
 * 2)  A time at which something begins; outset.
 * You can hear the gun go off at the offset of the race.
 * 1) A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1) 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.

Verb

 * 1) To compensate for something.
 * I'll offset the time difference locally.

Thesaurus
absorb the shock, albertype, analog process, annul, antacid, antidote, antipode, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antonym, atone for, balance, ballast, be at cross-purposes, be opposed to, behavior pattern, book printing, branch, break the fall, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, check, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, clash, collotype, color printing, come to nothing, compensate, compensation, conflict, conflict with, consideration, contra, contradict, contrapose, contrast with, contravene, controvert, converse, counter, counteract, counteractant, counteraction, counteractive, counteragent, counterbalance, countercheck, counterirritant, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpole, counterpose, counterterm, countervail, counterweigh, counterweight, counterwork, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, digital process, electronography, electrostatic printing, equalize, equalizer, equipoise, equiponderate, equivalent, even out, even up, feeling, filiation, foil, frustrate, give-and-take, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, hunting, impress, impression, imprint, indemnify, input oscillation, invalidate, inverse, job printing, juxtapose in opposition, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mackle, make amends, make good, make restitution, make up, make up for, makeweight, mimeograph, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, neutralizer, nullifier, nullify, obverse, offcut, offprint, offset lithography, offshoot, onset, oppose, opposite, opposite number, oppugn, oscillatory behavior, outweigh, overcorrection of error, overshoot, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, play at cross-purposes, preventative, preventive, print, printing, printmaking, process, prophylactic, publication, publishing, quid pro quo, recompense, redeem, redress, reimburse, reissue, relief printing, remedy, repay, reprint, reverse, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, run counter to, self-excitation, set off, setoff, sheetwork, shoot, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, soften, soften the blow, something of value, sprout, square, square up, stamp, stencil, stop, stultify, suppress, the contrary, the other side, three-color printing, thwart, tit for tat, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, undo, vis-a-vis, vitiate, void, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

Etymology
From, used to construct the noun form of the verb set off:.

Noun

 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Spanish: ajuste, descuento, compensación, reducción.


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: offsetpaino
 * French:
 * Hebrew: אופסט, הדפסת פסט
 * Hungarian: ofszet


 * Irish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: impresión Offset
 * Spanish: impresión Offset


 * Hebrew: היסט


 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: siirros, poikkeama (linjasta)
 * French: ,


 * Russian: отступ


 * : desalinhamento

Verb

 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * set off