offset

offset: see printing.

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offset

(1) See offset press.

(2) The distance from a starting point, either the start of a file or the start of a memory address. Its value is added to a base value to derive the actual value. An offset into a file is simply the character location within that file, usually starting with 0; thus "offset 240" is actually the 241st byte in the file. See relative address.

(3) In word processing, the amount of space a document is printed from the left margin.

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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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(programming)

offset - An index or position in an array, string, or block of memory usually a non-negative integer. E.g. the Perl function splice(ARRAY, OFFSET, LENGTH, LIST) replaces LENGTH elements starting at index OFFSET in array with LIST, where offset zero means the start of the array. For an Intel x86 processor with a segmented address space the offset is the position of a byte relative to the start of the segment.