spillover
nounEtymology
Definitions
That which overflows
That which overflows; the excess or side effect.
- The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope.
- The spillover from this war will be many little massacres of civilians by civilians.
- And Mr. Pike, for practically all of his sixty-nine years, has stood his watch-and-watch, with many a spill-over of watches into watches.
The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to…
The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans.
The neighborhood
- neighborzoonosis
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for spillover. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA