throwoffs

Noun

throwoff (plural throwoffs)

1. Income minus expenses and depreciation
   • Adding to his depreciation of $750,000, he would have a cash throwoff of $1,100,000.1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Hearings, page 27
2. Control for disengaging a mechanism
   • The impression throwoff lever and starting and stopping buttons are similar to those found on the other presses.1963, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Lithographer 3 & 2, page 453
3. Deflection of a projectile
   • We can use the analogy of a vacuum trajectory to examine the lateral throwoff effect generated by either a static or a dynamic imbalance.2018, Donald E. Carlucci, Sidney S. Jacobson, Ballistics
4. Something off-the-cuff
   • In talking to them they will drop another name and we will check that one throwoff.1955, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Investigation on Administration of Refugee Relief Act, page 253
5. The act of flinging off
   • Figure 5.40b shows the case of a dam produced by two delayed throwoff blasts in one slope; the upper charge (or row) is fired first and the lower one within a certain interval.1979, Josef Henrych, The Dynamics of Explosion and Its Use, page 300
6. Something thrown off
   • Assuming a bloody instrument being swung in an arc, can you tell us what you mean by weapon throwoff and what causes it?1966, Paul Holmes, Retrial; Murder and Dr. Sam Sheppard, page 213

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