spin off

See also: spinoff and spin-off

English

Verb

spin off (third-person singular simple present spins off, present participle spinning off, simple past and past participle spun off)

(transitive) To create as a by-product or a secondary derived work.
a line of merchandise spun off from a TV series
- 1987, PC Tech Journal (volume 5, page 23)
  For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.

Translations

to create as by-product

Finnish: spinnata (business slang)

Italian: derivare (it), ricadere, scorporare

Anagrams

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