Meaning

• Noun

  1. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
  2. 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.
  3. A time at which something begins; outset.
  4. The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
  5. The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
  6. The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
  7. The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
  8. A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
  9. 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.
  10. A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
  11. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
  12. 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.
  13. A terrace on a hillside.

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