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
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Anagrams
- off spin, offspin