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offset: see printing printing, means of producing reproductions of written material or images in multiple copies. There are four traditional types of printing: relief printing (with which this article is mainly concerned), intaglio, lithography, and screen process printing. ..... Click the link for more information. . offset(1) See offset press. offset 1. Botany a. a short runner in certain plants, such as the houseleek, that produces roots and shoots at the tip b. a plant produced from such a runner 2. a ridge projecting from a range of hills or mountains 3. the horizontal component of displacement on a fault 4. a narrow horizontal or sloping surface formed where a wall is reduced in thickness towards the top 5. a person or group descended collaterally from a particular group or family; offshoot
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The farmers were bound to throw in something, to sort of offset my liberality, whether I would or no; so I let them give me a flint and steel; and as soon as they had comfortably bestowed Sandy and me on our horse, I lit my pipe. By careful selection they rear only the hardiest specimens of each species, and with almost supernatural foresight they regulate the birth rate to merely offset the loss by death. " thought D'Artagnan, "it is very little to offset the unexpected tribulations I am bringing to this poor devil who has so warmly welcomed me. |
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