Offset

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 dish antenna, a type of satellite dish.
• 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

See also

• Displacement (vector) or "offset", the position of a point or a particle in reference to an origin or to a previous position.