offsettings

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
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
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