spin off en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work.
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.
2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times:a line of merchandise spun off from a TV series
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.
1987, PC Tech Journal, volume 5, page 23:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| spun off | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| spun off | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| spinning off | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| spins off | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Coordinates
spin down · split off · spin up · spin out
Deriveds
Translations (6)
fi spinnata (to create as by-product) · pl przekształcić (to create as by-product) · it ricadere (to create as by-product) · pl przekształcać (to create as by-product) · it scorporare (to create as by-product) · it derivare (to create as by-product)