offset
<programming> An index or position in an array, string, or block of
memory usually a non-negative integer.
E.g. the Perl function splice(ARRAY, OFFSET, LENGTH, LIST) replaces LENGTH
elements starting at index OFFSET in array with LIST, where offset zero means
the start of the array.
For an Intel x86 processor with a segmented address space the offset is the
position of a byte relative to the start of the segment.
(2004-02-27)
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