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 (something) 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.
- 2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times:
- Halks-Miller’s discovery fired the starting gun on the race to develop a diagnostic blood test. Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent.
Translations
to create as by-product
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