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 (something) 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.

   • 2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• spin down
• spin out
• spin up
• split off

 

Derived terms

• spin-off (noun)
• spinoff (noun)

 

Translations

to create as by-product

• Finnish: spinnata (business slang)
• Italian: derivare (it), ricadere, scorporare

Anagrams

• off spin, offspin