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Usually means: Compensation for difference or imbalance.
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We found 73 dictionaries that define the word offset:

General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. offset: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. offset: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. offset: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. offset: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Offset, offset: Wordnik
  6. offset: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. offset: Wiktionary
  8. offset: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. offset: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. offset: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. offset: Dictionary.com
  12. offset: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. offset: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Offset (EP), Offset (botany), Offset (computer science), Offset (film), Offset (law), Offset (rapper), Offset: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Offset: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. offset: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. offset: Rhymezone
  18. offset: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. offset: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. OFFSET: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. offset: Free Dictionary
  22. offset: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. offset: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. offset: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business dictionaries Business (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. offset: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. offset: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. OFFSET: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Offset: bizterms.net
  9. Offset: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  10. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Offset: Harvey Financial
  12. Offset: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  13. Offset: Investopedia
  14. offset: Legal dictionary
  15. Offset: Financial dictionary
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  17. offset: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  18. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing dictionaries Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. offset: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. offset: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. Offset (computer), offset: Encyclopedia

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. offset: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Offset: Castle Terms
  2. OFFSET: Acronym Finder

Science dictionaries Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)

Sports dictionaries Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Offset: Bicycle Glossary
  4. offset: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech dictionaries Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Paper Making (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  8. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  9. OFFSET: Power Engineering

(Note: See offseting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
noun:  (international trade) 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.
noun:  (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
noun:  (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
noun:  (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
noun:  (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
noun:  The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
noun:  (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
noun:  An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
noun:  (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
noun:  A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
noun:  (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
noun:  (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
verb:  (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
verb:  (transitive) To place out of line.
verb:  (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
adverb:  Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.
adjective:  Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.

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Crossword clues:
to counter,   try to counteract,   counter balance,   to set against,   to counterbalance,   balanced by,   counter effect,   to counteract,   balanced out by,   nett off


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