offsetting
抵销,抵偿,抵补,抵消
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Definitions
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- : something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
- : the start, beginning, or outset.
- : a short lateral shoot by which certain plants are propagated.
- : an offshoot or branch of a specific population or family.
- : any offshoot; branch.
- : Also called offset printing, offset lithography. Lithography. a process in which a lithographic stone or metal or paper plate is used to make an inked impression on a rubber blanket that transfers it to the paper being printed, instead of being made directly on the paper.the impression itself.
- : Also called setoff. Printing. an unintentional transfer of excess or undried ink from one printed sheet to another.
- : Geology. the magnitude of displacement between two previously aligned bodies.a spur of a mountain range.
- : Machinery. a jog or short displacement in an otherwise straight and continuous line, as in a pipe, lever, or rod, made to avoid objects or to connect with other parts.
- : Architecture. setoff.
- : Surveying. a short distance measured perpendicularly from a main survey line.Also called offset line .a line a short distance from and parallel to a main survey line.
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Examples
As I’ve reported before, carbon offsets don’t necessarily cancel out emissions from somewhere else.
It works by drilling a hole through the tenon that is slightly offset from a hole in the mortise, so when you drive a dowel through the two holes, it pulls them into alignment, thus tightly joining the pieces of wood.
That lab work costs $2,000 per DNA sample, officials said Thursday, an expense that the grant funding will help offset.
Hitting a net zero target requires using every available technology to decarbonize energy systems—and then using mitigating options or other technology to offset those emissions that are harder to eliminate.
Apple is betting that the fee change will result in developers creating more apps and sticking with the App Store, which will create enough new revenue to offset any potential financial negatives from the fee reductions.
When it comes to offsetting the negativity of disgust, does pride really work just as well as serenity?
He won on unemployment benefits, on which Senate Republicans didn't even demand offsetting cuts.
After two years, the middle-class cuts would also expire unless Congress paid for them with offsetting savings or tax increases.
But as the economy strengthens, interest rates will rise, offsetting some of the recovery's beneficial effect on the deficit.
The offsetting obligation to pay claims is contingent, unfixed and off on the horizon.
There is a little trick in offsetting pipe that one will have to practice to obtain.