Card holders will now see one of a couple of letters in a circle. W, which means âwhiteâ for military or civilian employee, G which means âgreenâ is for contractors, B is for âblueâ and is the ID color for non-citizens.
Definition of Offset. Babylon English. Reverse impression from the face of a sheet of stamps onto the back of another sheet. To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another. To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
Offsetting is an alternate method of determining position of objects, and was often used to measure imprecise features such as riverbanks. The surveyor would mark and measure two known positions on the ground roughly parallel to the feature, and mark out a baseline between them.