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, 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), 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, 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, a trade practice in the aerospace and defense industry
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Offset loan (finance), 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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