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n.
An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
n.
A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.
n.
A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
n.
A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
v. t.
To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
n.
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; -- called also set-off.
n.
One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
n.
A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor.
v. i.
One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
v. t.
To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
n.
Offset, n., 4.
n.
A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Offset
a.
Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.
n.
See Offset, 7.
n.
Same as Offset, n., 4.
n.
An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
imp. & p. p.
of Offset
v. i.
To make an offset.
n.
That which is set off against another thing; an offset.
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