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spin off

spin off verb: to create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work.

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
    • 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.1987, PC Tech Journal, volume 5, page 23

spin off meaning in Tamil

spin off in Tamil

வெட்டிவிடல், இடைவிளைவு, துணைத் தயாரிப்பு

Forms of spin off

third-person singular presentspins off
present participlespinning off
past participlespun off
pastspun off

Words formed from spin off

Questions about spin off

What does spin off mean?
Spin off means to create (something) as a by-product or a secondary derived work.
What is spin off in Tamil?
Spin off in Tamil is வெட்டிவிடல், இடைவிளைவு, துணைத் தயாரிப்பு. See Spin off meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spin off?
Spin off is a verb.
What is the past tense of spin off?
The past tense of spin off is spun off.

Words near spin off in the dictionary

  1. spin magnetic moments
  2. spin merchant
  3. spin merchants
  4. spin network
  5. spin networks
  6. spin off
  7. spin one's wheels
  8. spin out
  9. spin plates
  10. spin polarization
  11. spin polarizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spin off (page history and authors); spin off (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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