offsetting

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
   • Such offsettings tend to reduce the variations of the aggregate.1932, Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Incorporated, Issue 21, page 11
   • 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.1958, R. Islam, International Economic Cooperation and the United Nations, page 71
2. The act or process of offsetting or displacing; displacement.
   • 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.1907, Fred H. Moffit, “The Nome Region”, in Report on Progress of Investigations of Mineral Resources of Alaska in 1906, page 130
   • 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.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
3. The amount by which something is offset or displaced; an offset or displacement.
   • 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. .2005, Hans-Joachim Bayer, HDD Practice Handbook, page 158
   • 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.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”...