offset

ot noun

1. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent. Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
2. 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
3. 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.
4. (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level. The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensor's offset and drift variations.

fe’l verb

1. To compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction. I'll offset the time difference locally.
2. To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).