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Offset vs Contemporary - What's the difference?

offset | contemporary |

As nouns the difference between offset and contemporary

is that offset is anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent while contemporary is someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.

As a verb offset

is to compensate for something.

As an adjective contemporary is

from the same time period, coexistent in time.

offset

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
  • Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
  • (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.
  • An array of bytes uses its index as the offset , of words a multiple thereof.
  • (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
  • The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensor's offset and drift variations.
  • The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
  • There is a small offset between the switch and the indicator which some users found confusing .
  • (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.
  • Verb

  • To compensate for something.
  • I'll offset the time difference locally.
    to offset one charge against another
  • To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
  • See also

    * onset

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----

    contemporary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • From the same time period, coexistent in time.
  • * Cowley
  • A grove born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
  • * Strype
  • This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
  • Modern, of the present age.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 24 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.}}
  • Relatively recent
  • Synonyms

    * contemporaneous

    Antonyms

    * anachronistic: in the wrong time period * archaic

    Noun

    (contemporaries)
  • Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
  • ''Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
    ''The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries .
  • Something existing at the same time.