Offset
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The term offset may refer to:
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- Carbon offsetCarbon offsetA carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere....
, a financial instrument aimed at a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions - Offset agreementOffset agreementDefense offset agreements are legal trade practices in the aerospace and military industries. These commercial practices do not need state regulations but, since the purchasers are mostly military departments of sovereign nations comparable to the US Defense Department, many countries have offset...
, trade practice in Aerospace and Defense Industry - Offset (computer science), a number indicating the distance (displacement) from the start of a data structure object and up to a given element
- DC offset, the mean amplitude of a (typically electronic) waveform
- Offset (gears), the perpendicular distance between the axes of hypoid gears or offset face gears
- Offset (wheel)Offset (wheel)The offset of a vehicle's wheel is the distance between the centerline of the wheel and the plane of the hub-mounting surface of the wheel. It can thus be either positive or negative, and is typically measured in millimeters...
, an important dimension of a vehicle wheel - Offset dish antennaOffset dish antennaAn offset dish antenna is a type of parabolic antenna. It is so called because the antenna feed is offset to the side of the reflector, in contrast to a typical axial-fed parabolic antenna where the feed is in front of the dish, on its axis...
, a type of satellite dish - Offset loan (finance)Offset loan (finance)An offset loan is a type of lending arrangement, usually for a mortgage, in which a borrower also maintains a savings account with the lender. Instead of receiving interest on the savings account, the interest payment due on the loan is calculated only on the net balance of the loan less the...
, a type of flexible lending arrangement - Offset printingOffset printingOffset printing is a commonly used printing technique in which the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface...
, a printing technique where the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface - Offset SoftwareOffset SoftwareOffset Software was a video game development company based in Newport Beach, California. It was founded by Sam McGrath, Travis Stringer, Trevor Stringer and Rod Green; except for Green, they had worked for S2 Games developing Savage: The Battle for Newerth, which won the grand prize at the...
, a game development company - Project Offset, the working title for a first-person shooter video game by Offset Software
- OffsetsOffsetsIn botany and horticulture Offset is a term used to describe a small virtually complete daughter plant that has been naturally asexually produced on the mother plant. They are clones , meaning that they are genetically identical to the mother plant. In the plant nursery business and gardens they...
, layers of plants in the plant nursery business - OffsetOffset (film)Offset is a 2006 film Drama directed and written by Didi Danquart. It was filmed in Bucharest.-Plot:The plot goes around the lives of the soon to be married Stefan a German working in Romania for a wealthy and exentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and Brindusa Alexandra Maria Lara Nicu's...
, a 2006 film with Răzvan Vasilescu and Alexandra Maria Lara - Frequency offsetFrequency offsetIn radio engineering, a frequency offset is an intentional slight shift of broadcasted radio frequency , to reduce interference with other transmitters.- Interference :...
, the difference between the frequency of a source and a reference frequency
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- Displacement (vector)Displacement (vector)A displacement is the shortest distance from the initial to the final position of a point P. Thus, it is the length of an imaginary straight path, typically distinct from the path actually travelled by P...
, specifies the position of a point or a particle in reference to an origin or to a previous position - Offset (geometry), the shape driven out from an original shape in equal distance and direction, normally or perpendicularly to the original shape
- Control offset the allowance set in a control system between the optimal desired figure and the actual figure tolerated