spin off

See also: spinoff and spin-off

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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:
      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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