by-product

[ bahy-prod-uh kt ]

/ ˈbaɪˌprɒd əkt /

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noun

a secondary or incidental product, as in a process of manufacture.

the result of another action, often unforeseen or unintended.

Origin of by-product

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby by-product

by-name, by-numbers, by-path, by-play, by-plot, by-product, by-road, by-street, by-talk, by-work, by-your-leave

Example sentences from the Web for byproduct

They are lake-sized pits used to store the toxic water that is a byproduct of the mining process.

Our Trip to The Climate War's Ground Zero |Darren Aronofsky |September 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And these days, CEOs get most of their compensation as a byproduct of rising share prices.

The SEC Can’t Make CEOs Care About Their Employees |Daniel Gross |September 19, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
And as a byproduct of the continuing resurgence of housing, sales of high-margin pickup trucks and SUVs also rose smartly.

U.S. Car Sales Roar in August |William O’Connor |September 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Google says the hype is simply a byproduct of its tech-friendly roll-out.

Slow Roll-out Builds Frenzied Anticipation for Google Glass |Nina Strochlic |May 14, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Their byproduct is used to organically fertilize the food, while the plants naturally clean the fish tanks.

Vertical Indoor Farms Are Growing in the U.S. |Miranda Green |May 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
A large part of decision is intuitive; it is the byproduct of the subconscious.

The Armed Forces Officer |U. S. Department of Defense
Thus the initial stage in the making of clothes may have been a byproduct of the hunting habit.

Man, Past and Present |Agustus Henry Keane
The cook, although upset by my reference to kings, lost none of the dignity of serving the byproduct of the Alaska cod.

The Flying Bo'sun |Arthur Mason
Benzol from byproduct coking ovens also can be used, but quantitatively is totally inadequate.

Conservation Through Engineering |Franklin K. Lane
Or, to put it in other words, medival witchcraft was a byproduct of the civilisation of the Roman Empire.

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology |St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour

British Dictionary definitions for byproduct

by-product

noun

a secondary or incidental product of a manufacturing process

a side effect

Scientific definitions for byproduct

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.

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