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Definition of Offsets
1. offset [v] - See also: offset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offsets
Literary usage of Offsets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plane Surveying: A Text-book and Pocket Manual by John Clayton Tracy (1907)
"Locating Objects by offsets. (a) This method corresponds to method 2, p. 4.
The perpendicular distances to the transit line from different points of an ..."
2. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"This will require shorter offsets. The azimuths and offsets in any case may be
taken from the tables of azimuths and offsets from tangents, ..."
3. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1889)
"When two persons are available to measure the lengths of offsets, ... The surveyor
may measure offsets without assistance with the offset-staff,—a light and ..."
4. Manual by American Railway Engineering Association (1916)
"STAKING SPIRALS BY offsets. The spiral may be staked by offsets, one-half being
offset from the tangent and the other half from circular curve, ..."
5. A Treatise on Mechanics' Liens by Louis Boisot (1897)
"20* Credits and offsets. . • § 410. Many statutes declare that the claim shall
state the amount due after deducting all credits and offsets. ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"While the account filed In this case is described as a statement of offsets, the
items are described as so much cash paid the plaintiff by Eubank, trustee, ..."
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