Offsets
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Offsets
noun
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
"Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat."
- 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.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
"offset lithographs"
- 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."