offsetting

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, offset +‎ -ing.

Verb

offsetting

1. present participle and gerund of offset

Noun

offsetting (countable and uncountable, plural offsettings)

1. 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
   • 1932, Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Incorporated, Issue 21, page 11:

     Such offsettings tend to reduce the variations of the aggregate.

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

     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.

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

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

     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.

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

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

2. The act or process of offsetting or displacing; displacement.
   • 1907, Fred H. Moffit, “The Nome Region”, in Report on Progress of Investigations of Mineral Resources of Alaska in 1906, page 130:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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

     Misalignment of shafts is an offsetting of their axes.

3. The amount by which something is offset or displaced; an offset or displacement.
   • 2005, Hans-Joachim Bayer, HDD Practice Handbook, page 158:

     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. .

   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

Derived terms

• carbon offsetting

 

Translations

Translations

• Greek: συμψηφισμός (el) m (sympsifismós)

Anagrams

• setting off