Offset

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Offset may refer to:

Offset (film), a 2006 film featuring Răzvan Vasilescu and Alexandra Maria Lara.
Offset (law), a reduction in the amount to be paid by a losing party on the basis of debt owed by the prevailing party.

Offset agreement, a trade practice in the aerospace and defense industry.
Offset loan (finance), a type of flexible lending arrangement.
Offset printing, a printing technique where an inked image is transferred from plate to printing surface via a rubber blanket.

Offset Software, a video game development company.
- Project Offset, working title of a first-person shooter video game by Offset Software.

Carbon offset, a financial instrument meant to aid efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Science and engineering

Offset (botany), a separable part of a plant that can develop into a new, independent plant.
Offset (computer science), the distance to (displacement of) an element within a data object.
Offset (gears), the perpendicular distance between the axes of hypoid or offset-facing gears.
Offset (geometry)
Offset (geophysics), the distance between a source and receiver of seismic or other geophysical readings.
Offset (wheel), "the distance between the mounting surface of the back of [a] wheel and the wheel[']s [axis]".^[1]

DC offset, the mean amplitude of a waveform (originally, a direct-current ("DC") waveform).
Frequency offset, the difference between a source and a reference frequency.
Phase offset, a sinusoidal function's initial (non-zero) angle at its origin.