English-Portuguese translations for offset

• compensação
  A segunda questão refere-se à compensação ou comercialização de emissões. The second issue concerns emissions offsetting, or trading.
  As agriculturas dos Estados-membros tiveram de encontrar uma forma de compensação. The agriculture of Member States has had to offset this in some way or other.
  Queremos ter a certeza de que a maior parte dos esforços é realizada na Europa, não por compensação. We want to make sure the bulk of the effort is made in Europe, not by offsetting.
• compensar
  É ridículo pensar que podemos compensar isto com mil milhões. If we think we can offset this with one billion, that is ridiculous!
  Não têm qualquer meio de compensar o seu prejuízo. There is no way in which they can offset such a loss anywhere else.
  Com efeito, não é possível compensar o esforço de acolhimento com meras contrapartidas financeiras.The burden of receiving refugees simply cannot be offset by financial contributions.
• contrapartida
  Contudo, a grande maioria das contrapartidas são indirectas e de natureza não militar. However, the huge majority of offsets are indirect and non-military in nature.
  O senhor deputado Harbour também levantou a questão das contrapartidas, que é uma questão extremamente complexa. Mr Harbour also raised the question about offsets, which is a very complex issue.
  Com efeito, não é possível compensar o esforço de acolhimento com meras contrapartidas financeiras.The burden of receiving refugees simply cannot be offset by financial contributions.
• desalinhamento
• início
• offset
  A tarefa desse comité seria identificar os projectos de desenvolvimento de empresas como projectos compensatórios ("offset") nos países em vias de desenvolvimento. The committee's job would be to identify development investment, investment as offset investments in developing countries.

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