By-product

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a product made during the manufacture of something else wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence wordnet

Etymology

From by- + product.

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