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)
Kiari Kendrell Cephus (born December 14, 1991), known professionally as Offset, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence as one third of the Atlanta-based hip hop trio Migos. Formed with fellow rappers Quavo and Take ...
, 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, mainly in the US,) is a small, virtually complete daughter plant that has been naturally and asexual reproduction, asexually produced on the mother plant. They are cloning, clones, meani ...
, 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 ...
, the distance to (displacement of) an element within a data object
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Offset (gears)
This page lists the standard US nomenclature used in the description of mechanical gear construction and function, together with definitions of the terms. The terminology was established by the American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA), unde ...
, 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 (mathematics), envelope of a family of Congruence (geometry), congruent circles centered on the curve.
It generalises the concept of ''parallel (geometry), parallel (straight) lines''. It can also be defi ...
* 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 value of the waveform. A waveform with zero mean or no DC bias is known as a ''DC balanced'' or ''DC ...
or DC offset, the mean amplitude of a waveform (originally, a direct-current ("DC") waveform)
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Displacement (vector)
In geometry and mechanics, a displacement is a vector whose length is the shortest distance from the initial to the final position of a point P undergoing motion. It quantifies both the distance and direction of the net or total motion al ...
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, 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 ...
, a type of satellite dish
* Phase offset, see
phase (waves)
In physics and mathematics, the phase (symbol φ or ϕ) of a wave or other 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 expressed in such a s ...
Other uses
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Offset (law), 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
Carbon offsetting is a carbon trading mechanism that enables entities to compensate for offset greenhouse gas emissions by investing in projects that reduce, avoid, or remove emissions elsewhere. When an entity invests in a carbon offsetting ...
, 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
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithography, lithographic process, which ...
, 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 the standard time at a particular place. This difference is expressed with respect to UTC and is generally shown in the format , , or . So if the ti ...
, time difference at a certain place from Coordinated Universal Time
See also
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Onset (disambiguation)
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