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)

1. (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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: derivare (it), ricadere, scorporare

Anagrams

• off spin, offspin