off-side rule English

Meaning off-side rule meaning

What does off-side rule mean?

off-side rule noun

— (soccer) The prohibition of teammates closer to the opponents' goal than the person kicking or throwing the ball unless there are three opponents at least as close to their goal line.

— (traffic engineering) A system that gives right-of-way at an intersection to traffic approaching from the side on which one is not driving.

— (programming) In some programming languages, the convention by which the indentation of a line of source code affects its meaning.