Offset vs Translate - What's the difference?
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Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
(international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
A time at which something begins; outset.
A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
(programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
(signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
(surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
(botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
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A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
(architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
To compensate for something.
To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
(label) To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another.
(label) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language.
(label) To change from one form or medium to another.
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
(label) To change from one form or medium to another.
To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation.
To transfer, to move from one place or position to another.
To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
* Evelyn
To transfer a bishop from one see to another.
* Camden.
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To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death.
* Heb. xi. 5.
To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection.
To rearrange a song from one genre to another.
(label) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.
A set of points obtained by'' adding a ''given'' fixed vector to each point ''of'' a ''given set.
As verbs the difference between offset and translate
is that offset is to compensate for something while translate is .As a noun offset
is anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.offset
English
Noun
(en noun)- Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
- An array of bytes uses its index as the offset , of words a multiple thereof.
- The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensor's offset and drift variations.
- There is a small offset between the switch and the indicator which some users found confusing .
Verb
- I'll offset the time difference locally.
- to offset one charge against another