offsetting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of offset

plural offsettings

1. countableuncountableThe use of one thing to offset another; the practice of compensating for or counterbalancing one thing or amount by another contrary thing or amount

   Such offsettings tend to reduce the variations of the aggregate.

   1932, Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Incorporated, Issue 21, page 11

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   But in the absence of a perfect equilibrium i.e. some countries developing over-all deficits and others over-all surpluses, the circular offsettings will have only a limited function to perform.

   1958, R. Islam, International Economic Cooperation and the United Nations, page 71

   Ultimately, the need for education on climate change and carbon offsetting could be a determining factor in the success of the carbon offsetting market.

   2013, Maria F. Schmitz, P. Diaz, Tourism as a Challenge, page 100

   Those writers advocating neglect or the use of a net-of-tax method for that part of the negative timing differences that is larger than the positive ones are, of course, advocating an offsetting of timing differences.

   2013, M. Van Hoepen, Anticipated and Deferred Corporate Income Tax in Companies’ Financial Statements, page 101

   Standards that consider an offsetting of assets and liabilities and revenues and expenses are limited.

   2015, Andreas Krimpmann, Principles of Group Accounting under IFRS, page 373

2. countableuncountableThe act or process of offsetting or displacing; displacement.

   Misalignment of shafts is an offsetting of their axes.

   2007, Boris M. Klebanov, David M. Barlam, Frederic E. Nystrom, Machine Elements: Life and Design, page 329

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   It is rarely the case that one can actually place hands on the contact of faulted beds, and the displacement is usually indicated by an offsetting of outcrops or the abrupt termination of beds along their strike.

   1907, Fred H. Moffit, “The Nome Region”, in Report on Progress of Investigations of Mineral Resources of Alaska in 1906, page 130

   Offsetting is closely related with sweeping. For example, the constant radius offsetting of a planar curve can be given as the boundary curve of the sweep region of a circle moving along the curve.

   1993, Eun-Joo Park, Myung-Soo Kim, “Modeling Generalized Cylinders with Variable Radius Offset Spadce Curves”, in S Y Shin, Tosiyasu L Kunii, editor, Computer Graphics And Applications, page 21

3. countableuncountableThe amount by which something is offset or displaced; an offset or displacement.

   A more unfavorable influence can be brought to linings by the shift of the surface loading when its offsetting is smaller than 30 m in the case.

   2021, Jiachong Xie, Jinchang Wang, Weiming Huang, Zhongxuan Yang, Rongqiao Xu, “Numerical Investigation on Cracking Behavior of Shield Tunnel Lining Subjected to Surface Loading: A Parametric Study”, in Yong Liu, Sabatino Cuomo, Junsheng Yang, editor, Advances in Innovative Geotechnical Engineering, page 65

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   After a thorough examination it showed that the structure was very poor, the channel changed its profile regularly (i.e. egg-shaped, circular, arch shaped) and also showed several vertcal ledges with axis offsettings of up to 0.5 m. .

   2005, Hans-Joachim Bayer, HDD Practice Handbook, page 158

   When measuring lines in any given direction, the position of all fences, houses, brooks, &c., within a chain of the line, must be determined by offsettings taken to them , and entered down in the field-book as right and left offsets; they are generally taken with a deal rod, ten links in length.

   2022, Henry Davis Hoskold, A Practical Treatise on Mining, Land and Railway Surveying, Engineering, &c., page 111