offsetting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of offset

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The 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.”

   “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.”

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

   “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.”

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

2. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of offsetting or displacing; displacement.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “Misalignment of shafts is an offsetting of their axes.”

3. (countable, uncountable)The amount by which something is offset or displaced; an offset or displacement.

   “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. .”

   “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.”

   “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.”