"offsetting" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1932, Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Incorporated, Issue 21, page 11",
          "text": "Such offsettings tend to reduce the variations of the aggregate.",
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          "ref": "1958, R. Islam, International Economic Cooperation and the United Nations, page 71",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2013, Maria F. Schmitz, P. Diaz, Tourism as a Challenge, page 100",
          "text": "Ultimately, the need for education on climate change and carbon offsetting could be a determining factor in the success of the carbon offsetting market.",
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          "ref": "2013, M. Van Hoepen, Anticipated and Deferred Corporate Income Tax in Companies’ Financial Statements, page 101",
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          "ref": "1907, Fred H. Moffit, “The Nome Region”, in Report on Progress of Investigations of Mineral Resources of Alaska in 1906, page 130",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2007, Boris M. Klebanov, David M. Barlam, Frederic E. Nystrom, Machine Elements: Life and Design, page 329",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "When measuring lines in any given direction, the position of all fences, houses, brooks, &c., within a chain of the line, must be determined by offsettings taken to them , and entered down in the field-book as right and left offsets; they are generally taken with a deal rod, ten links in length.",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2007, Boris M. Klebanov, David M. Barlam, Frederic E. Nystrom, Machine Elements: Life and Design, page 329",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "When measuring lines in any given direction, the position of all fences, houses, brooks, &c., within a chain of the line, must be determined by offsettings taken to them , and entered down in the field-book as right and left offsets; they are generally taken with a deal rod, ten links in length.",
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