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by-product
[ bahy-prod-uhkt ]
noun
- a secondary or incidental product, as in a process of manufacture.
- the result of another action, often unforeseen or unintended.
by-product
noun
- a secondary or incidental product of a manufacturing process
- a side effect
by-product
/ bī′prŏd′əkt /
- Something produced in the process of making something else. When plants produce carbohydrates by photosynthesis, oxygen is released as a by-product. Asphalt and paraffin are by-products of the process of refining crude oil into gasoline.
Word History and Origins
Origin of by-product1
Example Sentences
What if violence against women is not a by-product of war, but rather a major cause of it?
Like dead wrestlers, this is a natural by-product of the sport itself.
The proliferation of zany burger toppings came next as an inevitable by-product of the high-end burger fad.
But those long wait times are not necessarily a by-product of their single-payer system.
The by-product of a choice to live in public; to put your information online.
The carbonic acid used is (p. 142) a by-product, hitherto wasted, from the fermenting tuns of breweries.
This negative, this suppressing character of attention is not a chance by-product, it is most essential.
It seems to be a by-product of the Gospel that nobody wants to contribute to the maintenance of the Gospel ministry.
Curiously enough, it came as an unexpected by-product of a further experiment in protection, the Payne-Aldrich tariff.
For some reason altogether beyond our conception—and man may have been a mere accident, a by-product evolved in the process.
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