by-product

by-product

See also: byproduct

English

Alternative forms

• byproduct

Etymology

From by- +‎ product.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: biproduct

Noun

by-product (plural by-products)

1. A secondary product; something made incidentally during the production of something else.
   • 1911, “History of English Agriculture”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

     It was about this time that the first experiments were made (in Germany) with basic slag, a material which had hitherto been regarded as a worthless by-product of steel manufacture. A year or two later field trials were begun in England, with the final result that basic slag has become recognized as a valuable source of phosphorus for growing crops, and is now in constant demand for application to the soil as a fertilizer.

2. A side effect.

   The many Indian restaurants all over Britain are a by-product of the large waves of immigration from the subcontinent.

Related terms

• waste-product

Translations

secondary product

Dutch: bijproduct (nl) n, nevenproduct n, (waste) afvalproduct n Finnish: sivutuote (fi) French: sous-produit (fr) m, co-produit (fr) m, produit dérivé m German: Nebenprodukt (de) n, Beiprodukt n, Nachprodukt n, Teilprodukt n Greek: υποπροϊόν (el) n (ypoproïón) Icelandic: aukaafurð f Japanese: 副産物 (ja) (fukusanbutsu) Norwegian: Bokmål: biprodukt n Nynorsk: biprodukt n

Portuguese: subproduto m Scottish Gaelic: far-stuth m Serbo-Croatian: nusproizvod (sh) m, nusprodukt m Swedish: biprodukt (sv) c Tagalog: yaga Turkish: yan ürün (tr)

side effect

Catalan: subproducte m Dutch: neveneffect (nl) n, bijverschijnsel n Finnish: sivuvaikutus (fi), sivutuote (fi) French: sous-produit (fr) m German: Nebenwirkung (de) f Greek: υποπροϊόν (el) n (ypoproïón), παρενέργεια (el) f (parenérgeia) Hebrew: תוצר לוואי‎ (totzar levai)

Portuguese: subproduto m Russian: побо́чный эффе́кт m (pobóčnyj effékt) Serbo-Croatian: nuspojava (sh) f Spanish: subproducto m Swedish: bieffekt (sv) c Turkish: yan etki (tr)

References

• by-product on Wikipedia.Wikipedia