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By-product
noun
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Noun
- 1 Something made incidentally during the production of something else.
"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 product made during the manufacture of something else wordnet
- 3 A consequence, especially a side effect.
"The many Indian restaurants all over Britain are a by-product of the large waves of immigration from the subcontinent."
- 4 a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence wordnet
Etymology
From by- + product.
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