Meaning of spin off | Babel Free

Definitions

To create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work.

transitive

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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