English-Dutch translations for offset

• begin
• compensatie
  Ze zouden althans voor een deel compensatie bieden voor de verliezen van de landbouwers. They partially alleviate and offset the losses incurred by the farmers.
  Het geld is een compensatie voor de schuld waarmee het IMF deze landen heeft opgezadeld. It offsets the indebtedness into which the IMF has brought these countries.
  Veruit de meeste compensaties hebben echter een indirect en niet-militair karakter. However, the huge majority of offsets are indirect and non-military in nature.
• offset
  De defensierichtlijn biedt echter wel alternatieven voor offsets. The Defence Directive does, however, offer alternatives to offsets.
  Het zogeheten carbon offsetting vormt daar in geen geval een oplossing toe. So-called carbon offsetting is no solution in this context.
  Offsets zijn bedoeld als tegemoetkoming van de binnenlandse sector van lidstaten die in het buitenland defensiemateriaal kopen. Offsets aim at fostering the industry of the Member State which purchases defence equipment abroad.
• sprong
• tegenpartij
• verspringing

Definition of offset

• Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent
• 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
• The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface
• The difference between a target memory address and a base address
• 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
• A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object
• A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc
• A spur from a range of hills or mountains
• A terrace on a hillside
• To compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction
• To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc

Examples

• Todays victory was an offset to yesterdays defeat
• offset lithographs
• offset process
• An array of bytes uses its index as the offset, of words a multiple thereof
• The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensors offset and drift variations
• There is a small offset between the switch and the indicator which some users found confusing
• Ill offset the time difference locally
• to offset one charge against another

Related words

• offsets
• offsetting
• offset printing
• offset agreement
• offset bulb
• offset dish antenna
• offset disc harrow
• offset press
• carbon offset