English-Estonian translations for offset

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

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