spin off

verb

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spin off. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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