Offset or Off-Set may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* "Off-Set", a song by T.I. and Young Thug from the ''
Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack''
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''Offset'' (EP), a 2018 EP by singer Kim Chung-ha
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''Offset'' (film), a 2006 film featuring Răzvan Vasilescu and Alexandra Maria Lara
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Offset Software, a video game development company
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Project Offset'', working title of a first-person shooter video game by Offset Software
People
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Offset (rapper), a rapper and member of the American hip-hop trio Migos
Science and engineering
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Offset (botany)
In botany and horticulture, an offset (also called a pup) is a small, virtually complete daughter plant that has been naturally and asexually produced on the mother plant. They are clones, meaning that they are genetically identical to the mot ...
, a separable part of a plant that can develop into a new, independent plant
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Offset (computer science)
In computer science, an offset within an array or other data structure object is an integer indicating the distance (displacement) between the beginning of the object and a given element or point, presumably within the same object. The concept of ...
, the distance to (displacement of) an element within a data object
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Offset (gears), the perpendicular distance between the axes of hypoid or offset-facing gears
* Offset (geometry), see
parallel curve
A parallel of a curve is the envelope of a family of congruent circles centered on the curve.
It generalises the concept of '' parallel (straight) lines''. It can also be defined as a curve whose points are at a constant '' normal distance'' f ...
* Offset (geophysics), the
distance between a source and receiver of seismic or other geophysical readings
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DC bias
In signal processing, when describing a periodic function in the time domain, the DC bias, DC component, DC offset, or DC coefficient is the mean amplitude of the waveform. If the mean amplitude is zero, there is no DC bias. A waveform with no DC ...
or DC offset, the mean amplitude of a waveform (originally, a direct-current ("DC") waveform)
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Displacement (vector) or "offset", the position of a point or a particle in reference to an origin or to a previous position
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Frequency offset
In radio engineering, a frequency offset is an intentional slight shift of broadcast radio frequency (RF), to reduce interference with other transmitters.
Interference
The most important problem encountered in broadcasting via terrestrial tra ...
, the difference between a source and a reference frequency
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Offset dish antenna
An offset dish antenna or off-axis dish antenna is a type of parabolic antenna. It is so called because the antenna feed is offset to the side of the reflector, in contrast to the common "front-feed" parabolic antenna where the feed antenna is s ...
, a type of satellite dish
* Phase offset, see
phase (waves)
In physics and mathematics, the phase of a periodic function F of some real variable t (such as time) is an angle-like quantity representing the fraction of the cycle covered up to t. It is denoted \phi(t) and expressed in such a scale that it ...
Other uses
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Offset (law)
An offset in law, is a reduction in the amount of a judgment granted to a losing party based on debts owed by the prevailing party to the losing party. For example, if an employee successfully sued an employer for wrongful termination, the employe ...
, a reduction in the amount to be paid by a losing party on the basis of debt owed by the prevailing party
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Carbon offset
A carbon offset is a reduction or removal of emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for emissions made elsewhere. Offsets are measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e). One ton of carb ...
, a financial instrument meant to aid efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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Offset agreement
Offsets are compensatory trade agreements, reciprocal trade agreements, between an exporting foreign company, or possibly a government acting as intermediary, and an importing entity. Offset agreements often involve trade in military goods and ser ...
, a trade practice in the aerospace and defense industry
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Offset loan (finance) An offset loan is a type of lending arrangement, usually for a mortgage, in which a borrower also maintains a savings account with the lender. Instead of receiving interest on the savings account, the interest payment due on the loan is calculated o ...
, a type of flexible lending arrangement
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Offset printing, a printing technique where an inked image is transferred from plate to printing surface via a rubber blanket
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UTC offset
The UTC offset is the difference in hours and minutes between Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and local solar time, at a particular place. This difference is expressed with respect to UTC and is generally shown in the format , , or . So if the tim ...
, time difference at a certain place from Coordinated Universal Time
See also
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Onset (disambiguation)
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